This reflection intended to analyze the counselling starting from the vision of the Freire's pedagogy visualizing it in a wider way, as an education activity, an intervention act for the subject's autonomy. The counselling is an activity developed by a Health professional, properly, and it is destined to who has indication of accomplishing the anti-HIV. In the ambit of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, the counselling contains three components: the emotional support to the customer; educational support; and evaluation of risks, that propitiates the reflection on values, attitudes and conducts. In that way, they will avoid to be he turned into a no obligation "chat" and led according to the counselor's will.
Counseling; HIV infections; AIDS; Health education