I arrive picking up people: analysis of young gay narratives about seeking care after the discovery of HIV infection in Salvador, Bahia
Young; HIV / AIDS; Continuous HIV care; Relationships; Technologies
In Brazil, over the last 10 years, there has been a growing picture of HIV / AIDS among young people, with an increase in the detection rate, especially among young gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Also in recent years, reference to new prevention and treatment technologies has impacted the natural history of HIV infection and the narratives of young people and others living with HIV. In the 4th decade of the HIV / AIDS epidemic, these elements have enabled full medical management and clinical “normalization” of HIV, assuming it is a regular part of health and social relations. The present work has as main scope to understand aspects of the trajectories of young gay men after the discovery of their HIV positive serology. To this end, narrative interviews were conducted with 14 young gay men who were diagnosed in 2016, as part of an epidemiological survey conducted in the city of Salvador-Bahia. In this direction, the ways in which these young people start to build their daily relationships based on HIV will be discussed, as well as the repercussions in the process of searching for a health service and the process of continuous care of HIV. For some young people, from the discovery of the new serological condition, daily life will be inhabited by a lot of “ingredients”, such as the challenges in the field of work and family, the expectation of a “matched love” or even a “transaction”. casual ”that overcomes the presence (secret or revealed) of HIV, as well as being experienced with the presence of individual, collective and programmatic obstacles to maintaining their health care. Thus, even in times of “normalization” of AIDS, the daily life after this event will not be uniform for everyone, since revealing or keeping serology secret can be a challenge, a complex process along which it is present. if the fear of rejection, the idea of guilt and the feeling of shame, as stigma, prejudice and discrimination still justify difficulties