This article is the result of a research with the objective of identifying risk perception/awareness of HIV/AIDS infection among university students living in a conjugal relationship. The research was a case study structured among ten qualitative interviews, whose participants were composed of five men and five women who had, at the time of the interview, steady conjugal relationships and were cohabiting. The age of the participants ranged from 25 to 57. The results showed that men and women who maintain a conjugal relationship have difficulties concerning risk perception of HIV/AIDS infection, and that the length of the relationship is an important factor present in their answers. The interviewees consider themselves of having a lower possibility of being infected than other people, since they trust their partners.
AIDS; risk perception; conjugality