Enfrentamento da soropositividade ao HIV/Aids na atualidade

Abstract

It has been almost forty years of social presence of HIV and Aids in societies around the world, a fact that has led to changes not only in the level of exposure of the disease, but also in the sexual activities of people. Since the Aids epidemic in the 1980s, much has been done about combating the HIV virus in order to prevent the growth in the number of sick and infected. However, there are still many hitted of the infection and, in recent years, this number has increased. This work is a theoretical study that aims to analyze the strategies for coping with HIV seropositivity today, both in terms of prevention and treatment and monitoring of the infection. It was observed that the great advances in the efficacy and quality of antiretroviral treatment, as well as the use of Combined Prevention and PrEP and PEP methods have enabled a significant increase in the quality of life of seropositive people, being the main mechanism for combating and preventing coping with the virus. In addition, other instruments are present, such as adequate and humanized medical care, family and friends as social support networks and the influence of religious aspects as sources of psychological strengthening and hope in the face of HIV.