Sentidos atribuídos a partir do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS em mulheres transgênero à luz da fenomenologia de Heidegger

Abstract

AIDS can already be considered an epidemic, whose illness has different aspects from the psychosocial and mental health point of view. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) has established the concept of key populations, which are populations with the highest prevalence of HIV / AIDS cases: people who use drugs, sex workers, men who have sex with others men (MSM) and transgender people. Being transgender the population with 49 times more chance of infection by HIV virus. By transgender is meant people who were born with a biological sex, but identify with the gender opposite to that attributed at birth. Thus, this master's research aimed to investigate the meanings attributed by transgender women from the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS. It was a research of a qualitative nature and developed from the phenomenological concepts, which has the purpose of making the understanding of what the other brings in his discourse. The method was the phenomenological research in Psychology and the phenomenological interview was used. The data were collected from a guiding question that has unfolded, thus making it possible to identify the meanings of the speeches and the formation of the categories of analysis for the understanding of the data. As results the following categories were obtained: "And the lived-world is expressed from the vulnerability", "And in the silence I hide the pain and the suffering", "From the communication of the diagnosis, another dimension is experienced: the finitude, the limit of the human "," Re-live the moment of contamination "," Being-trans and being-PLHA, double stigma "," Being-with and care. "The interviewees brought as main experiences suffering when diagnosed , the double stigma of being transgender with HIV, and the existential resizing of the being-with.