Modos de enfrentamento do HIV/AIDS: direitos humanos, vulnerabilidades e assistência à saúde

Abstract

Coping with HIV/AIDS configures itself as a challenge for contemporary society, in view of the control several aspects of the epidemic. In this research, the objective was to analyze, through theoretical studies, the HIV/AIDS social coping, circumscribed in the references of human rights, vulnerability and health care in Brazil. It was found that the notion of human rights brought innovative contributions, demonstrating that their violation increases the possibility of dissemination of HIV; the concept of vulnerability is an analysis of structures that incorporates an interdependence of individual, social and programmatic aspects in greater or lesser exposure to HIV infection; health care in the context of HIV/AIDS permeates integral public health care in the country. Finally, a reflection on these theoretical contributions in interface with HIV/AIDS coping, demonstrate them inequalities, discriminations, health system precariousness are closely related to the health-disease dynamics.