Desvelando o conhecimento de gestantes soropositivas acerca da transmissão vertical do HIV.

Abstract

HIV have constituted a serious public health problem today, with a high mortality rate and strong convergence of growth and spread in different territories. Epidemic initially restricted to cities and predominantly male, is today a framework marked by processes of social transformation. Under this prism, epidemiological data register significant increase of cases in women of reproductive age, characterizing what was called the feminization of the epidemic. This growth in the number of HIV-positive women of reproductive age brings as a consequence the increase in rates of HIV transmission, meaning the real possibility of contamination of the child, called transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Thus, this study aimed to assess the knowledge of HIV positive pregnant women about HIV transmission in a municipal maternity city of Campina Grande. The theoretical framework was divided into three main topics: HIV/AIDS: a brief retrospect, The Feminization of the HIV/AIDS; The issue of vertical transmission of HIV. This was an exploratory, descriptive qualitative approach, performed in outpatient prenatal high risk of ISEA. The sample was composed of seven HIV positive pregnant women, interviewed through a semi-structured interview guide. Discourse analysis was performed based Content Analysis por Bardin proposal. Upon careful reading of the speeches made , it was possible the appointment of Central Thematic Unit: "The experience of HIV seropositivity during pregnancy period" , which conformed five categories called: Knowledge of pregnant women about HIV infection ; Subjective experience motherhood in the context of seropositivity ; forms of Vertical Transmission of HIV from the perspective of HIV positive pregnant women ; Implications on measures to prevent vertical transmission of HIV and abstinence as an expression of breastfeeding for prevention. The results show that pregnant women have a superficial knowledge and insufficient about ways of HIV TV, as well as on measures of avoidance. It could be observed that the prevention of mother to child transmission of the virus requires a set of procedures that can influence ¬ intense mind the experience of being a mother can reflect on themselves and their relation with their filhos. Infere that this study can contribute research in this field, as evidenced camouflaged needs of this portion of the population and need to be reviewed by the teams that

perform the monitoring of these women in referral centers. It is clear that, although the information is everywhere, exalted by different means, it still shows obscure, since not reach the population as a whole , or even covers so superficial and insufficient. It is imperative that further research be conducted in this area so that new strategies arise, in order to improve care for HIV-positive women.