Discurso y estigmatización de mujeres viviendo con VIH en la ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

This graduate work investigated the influence of discourse on the existence and / or increase of discrimination and stigma towards women living with HIV / AIDS, all categories and classifications demonstrate that discourse is indeed influential in strengthening or building stigma. and prejudices, in addition to replicating socially from the discrimination and segregation of the population of women living with the virus. An analysis was made of the repercussions of the prejudices and stereotypes that continue to exist among people, which may be due to the lack of knowledge about HIV / AIDS, where there are still fears of becoming infected by sharing spaces, consuming food even more degree people would not allow a health professional with HIV to perform procedures on them. The compilation of information to understand the incidence of discourse was carried out through focus groups, a perception survey on HIV / AIDS and workshops. In the case of the survey, different aspects were classified, including age, gender, educational level, stratum, religion, among others, and in the case of focus groups and workshops, it was observed that women living with HIV / AIDS, have undergone changes in their daily lives beyond the diagnosis, because after knowing it they have lost job stability, socialization, political participation and other aspects. Therefore, there is a need to work on the subject, because despite advances in women's rights and equality in society, representative participation has not yet been achieved, much less when they are women living with HIV / AIDS, different from other diseases that are socially recognized and that generate a mobilization in search of the rights of the people who suffer from them.