Abstract

MUNOZ MARTINEZ, Rubén. Health care, adherence to antiretroviral therapy and discrimination. Some issues in healh care for people living with HIV-aids, from an anthropological perspective. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.17, pp.95-115. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2014.17.65.

This text addresses some problems regarding access by users to HIV-AIDS prevention/care/control services at the medical office of Servicio de Atención Integral (SAI by its acronym in Spanish), pertaining to a Mexican Health Department clinic in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. It specifically focuses on discrimination-related issues, concretely regarding the user’s sexual orientation and socio-cultural trajectory through SAI, as well as the doctor-patient-institution relationship. The representations of the clinic’s doctors regarding sexual and HIV-AIDS preventive practices as well as the explicatory models of the health/disease/care triad of the subjects and collective recipients, and the clinic’s health care praxis are analyzed.

Keywords : HIV-AIDS; discrimination; treatment adherence.