Percepciones sobre comportamientos sexuales de riesgo en personas que viven con VIH/Sida y reciben tratamiento antirretroviral en Piura, Perú
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15533960 |
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| Authors | José P Juarez-Vílchez (Departamento de Salud, corresponding author), Edwar J Pozo (0000-0001-7183-5230, Ministerio de Salud) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1726-4634 • E-ISSN: 1726-4642 |
| Publisher | National Institute of Health of Peru (PUBLISHER • PE) |
| DOI | 10.17843/rpmesp.2010.271.1441 |
| OpenAlex | W4234739640 |
| Language | ES |
| References cited | 2 |
Objetive. To explore opinions and beliefs about risky sexual behavior and HIH transmission in tow hospital of Piura. Material y methods. Qualitative study based on extensive interviews and focus groups of people over 15 years old of age living with HIV. Interviews were recorded as audio, and then transcribed as text in MS Word. Information was analyzed with AtlasTi. Results. Results indicate that people living with HIV and receive antiretrovirals practice risky sexual behavior. Those results agree with quantitative-epidemiological studies establishing that TARGA era is associated with continuation or increase of risky sexual behavior. Two reasons could explain such behavior; first there is a belief that HIV is innocuous by effect of the antiretrovirals. Second, there is belief that a medical confirmation of undetectable viral count means being healed from infection. Conclusions. People living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals improving general health status maintain risky sexual behavior that may facilitate HIV transmission to their serodiscordant partners and increase the number of people infected. Until now, prevention activities mostly targeted people believed not to be infected, however, it is also necessary an intense secondary prevention effort that includes an explicit approach of sexuality in its entire dimension
Antiretroviral therapy · Environmental health · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human sexuality · Population · Reproductive health · Serodiscordant · Sexual behavior · Sexual transmission · Sociology · Transmission (telecommunications · Viral load · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Clinical Psychology · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Medicine · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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