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Between comings and goings: stories of men's itineraries to HIV/Aids health services

Abstract

As part of an epidemiologic study on late presentation (LP) to HIV/Aids health services, this study intends to analyze men´s narratives on trajectories or itineraries in seeking for HIV/Aids services and further describe the events and actors present on daily practices in which occurs the displacement of the patients to the health service. The study was conducted at the only State Reference Center for HIV/Aids in Salvador, Bahia. Twenty five semi-structured interviews with men - with positive HIV serology - were realized at the reference center. Some of those narratives are presented throughout this article. This article considers LP to health services not as an specific moment. Beyond that, it analyses the existence of a network of actions/events which prolongs the LP on time, sometimes hindering and sometimes facilitating the ongoing treatment. In this direction we also recognize the existence of barriers, conflicts and tensions in which occurs the practices of health care. Nonetheless, these same conflicts enable the creation of several actions and strategies to a better reception and a more continuous and fulfilled way of health care.

 Key words:
therapeutic itineraries; late presentation; HIV/Aids; men; health care

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