Abstract
Socio-historical research whose aim was to know the perception of health professionals about AIDS epidemic prevention from 1986 to 2006. They worked in a reference hospital for infectious and contagious diseases. The data was collected from March to October 2011, using the oral story technique, and the subjects were twenty-three health professionals who looked after people suffering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome during the above mentioned period. The content analysis described by Bardin was used and two categories came up: the need for preventive strategies and the lack of using condoms. The results showed that the health professionals' perception about AIDS prevention was bad due to: the media fragility, the health professionals' actions regarding preventive strategies and the trivialization of the preventive measures by the society, by not using condoms in sexual intercourse. We concluded that ignoring the disease led to slowing down the process of clarifying and preventing HIV/AIDS.
Highlights
HIV/AIDS is considered a significant social phenomenon in the relationships between people, since it covers aspects related to ethics, religion, sexuality, drugs and even conjugal morality.[1]
When referring to the history of the AIDS epidemic, it is possible to observe that its development happened in many different ways in relation to the epidemiological patterns, the psychosocial effects, the treatment and in relation to the aspects related to HIV prevention. This is how we seek to present, in this manuscript, a part of the history related to the evolution of AIDS, which health workers experienced in caring for people with this syndrome hospitalized in the Hospital Nereu Ramos (HNR), especially with regard to perceptions of professionals in relation to AIDS prevention during the epidemic
Data were collected from March to October of 2011 by means of semi-structured interviews with 23 health workers who provided care to people with HIV/AIDS admitted to HNR, from 1986 to 2006, including four physicians, eight nurses, four nursing technicians, three nursing aides, a dentist, a nutritionist, a social worker and a psychologist
Summary
HIV/AIDS is considered a significant social phenomenon in the relationships between people, since it covers aspects related to ethics, religion, sexuality, drugs and even conjugal morality.[1]. This is how we seek to present, in this manuscript, a part of the history related to the evolution of AIDS, which health workers experienced in caring for people with this syndrome hospitalized in the HNR, especially with regard to perceptions of professionals in relation to AIDS prevention during the epidemic.
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