Synergic interactions between HIV/Aids and Covid-19

the decentralization of HIV/Aids care in primary care in Rio Tinto (Paraíba)

Authors

  • Luziana Marques da Fonseca Silva Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Francisco Paulino de Oliveira Neto Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Gabriel Cavalcante Bueno de Moraes Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

Based on preliminary ethnographic data from an ongoing investigation, we will discuss the synergies between the decentralization of HIV/Aids care in Rio Tinto/Paraíba and the Covid-19 pandemic. The empirical material has shown a complex fabric involving the relationship between the territorial logic that guides Primary Care (PC) and the fear of users regarding the “gossip” about positive diagnoses and their reverberations in the neighborhood, including because it is an area marked by social and individual vulner- ability. In addition, the focus on maternal and child health has directed rapid tests to pregnant women. This web becomes even more tangled when we realize that Covid-19 has been the focus of management practices, thus causing a slowdown in HIV/Aids care. These synergistic situations that involve the interaction between biological, symbolic, social and political phenomena design and shape the syndemic (SINGER, 1994) between HIV/Aids and Covid-19.

KEYWORDS:
HIV/Aids. Covid-19. Decentralization. Syndemic.

Picture: Gabriel Cavalcante. Editor: Mónica Franch

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Author Biographies

Luziana Marques da Fonseca Silva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Professora do Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Francisco Paulino de Oliveira Neto, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Graduando em Antropologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Gabriel Cavalcante Bueno de Moraes, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Graduando em Antropologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Foto: Gabriel Cavalcante. Edição: Mónica Franch

Published

2022-12-05

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Ethnographies about a sindemics: Covid-19 and interactions