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0202/2025 - Disease requires medication, right? And children don't, they're for life: HIV prevention according to low-income youth from five cities in Brazil
Doença toma remédio, né? E filho não, é pra vida toda: prevenção do HIV segundo jovens de baixa renda de cinco cidades do Brasil

Author:

• Simone Monteiro - Monteiro, S - <monteiro.simone.fiocruz@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2009-1790

Co-author(s):

• Isabelle Honorato - Honorato, I - <isahonorato@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9556-4615
• Andrea Leal - Leal, A - <dea.leal@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1947-9579
• Regina Maria Barbosa - Barbosa, RM - <Rbarbosa@nepo.unicamp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-2137
• André Luiz Machado das Neves - Neves, ALM - <almachado@uea.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7400-7596
• Laio Magno - Magno, L - <laiomagnoss@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3752-0782
• Daniela Knauth - Knauth, D - <daniela.knauth@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8641-0240


Abstract:

The increase in HIV incidence rates among young people contrasts with the discontinuity of educational actions and the invisibility of AIDS in public space. Based on socio-anthropological research, the article analyzes conceptions and practices regarding HIV prevention of 139 men and women aged 15 to 24, mostly heterosexual and cisgender, from low-income communities in Porto Alegre, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Manaus and Salvador. The study involved ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups. According to the findings, the knowledge about diagnosis and new technologies for prevention and treatment of HIV is limited. HIV transmission is still associated with gays, trans people and individuals with many partners, fear of the stigma of AIDS persists and there is rare contact with people with HIV. There is a prevailing self-perception that infection by the virus is far from the realm of possibility, especially if condoms are used with strangers; there is greater concern about unintended pregnancy. The results point to the need for policies capable of addressing the stigma of AIDS and social, racial and gender inequalities and creating spaces for learning and dialogue in schools, health services and social movements, updating successful experiences and exploring the potential of social networks.

Keywords:

prevention, adolescent, HIV/AIDS, poverty, Brazil

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Monteiro, S, Honorato, I, Leal, A, Barbosa, RM, Neves, ALM, Magno, L, Knauth, D. Disease requires medication, right? And children don't, they're for life: HIV prevention according to low-income youth from five cities in Brazil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Jun). [Citado em 05/12/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/disease-requires-medication-right-and-children-dont-theyre-for-life-hiv-prevention-according-to-lowincome-youth-from-five-cities-in-brazil/19678?id=19678



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