Abstract
Objective: To communicate life stories of people who suffer from acquired immunodeficiency-syndrome with a higher vulnerability registered at the Municipal Secretary of Social Assistance and the diagnostic’s influence on their daily routine.
 Method: Descriptive and exploratory study based on oral life history. Thirteen people with AIDs took part in the study via a semi-structured interview. The narratives were analyzed using Bardin’s thematic content analysis.
 Results: Three thematic axes emerged from Bardin’s content analysis: prejudice and discrimination regarding the life routine with aids; Reaction when facing the diagnostic and the adhesion process for the antiretroviral treatment; Confrontation of religion and religiousness on people with aids.
 Conclusion: The people living with aids, a chronic and stigmatizing disease, need the support of multidisciplinary teams and an improvement in relation to the access, the coverage and the meaning assigned to the disease, besides a better quality of life and social assistance. We conclude that religion did not contribute to facing these people’s conditions. It brought blame, incorrect information that may impair the treatment and their follow-up. One infers that health education regarding HIV/AIDS needs to be remodeled on all of society’s segments.
Highlights
The outbreak caused by HIV has become a milestone in human history representing a global, dynamic and unstable phenomenon, whose form of occurrence at several regions of the world, depends, among other factors, on the individual and collective human behavior
Three theme axes were identified base Oral Life History submitted to steps of theme content analysis, shown in Table 1 for better visualization and understanding of the content analysis, in addition to the highlight for some subcategories that support each one of the following: Prejudice and discrimination regarding the life routine with aids; Reaction when facing the diagnostic and the adhesion process for the antiretroviral treatment; and Confrontation of religion and religiousness on people with aids
The effort against these factors results in great challenges, but a good quality of prevention and nursing assistance is the initial point to diminish/temper the suffering of people living with HIV/Aids
Summary
The outbreak caused by HIV has become a milestone in human history representing a global, dynamic and unstable phenomenon, whose form of occurrence at several regions of the world, depends, among other factors, on the individual and collective human behavior. The stigma looming over the illness may affect the life of people with Aids and, their network of social support and parenthood. Besides fearing their life’s end, one begins to fear the social death that runs through the belief of ceasing to exist for society. This condition is a deterioration in the condition of people with HIV/Aids since it makes the infected to keep the disease to himself, because of fear or in an attempt to avoid suffering [3]
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