Prácticas religiosas en la irrupción del diagnóstico de VIH-SIDA en varones de la Ciudad de México. Los discursos de la experiencia

Religious practices in the irruption of the diagnosis of HIV-AIDS in men of Mexico City. The discourse of experience

Abstract

HIV/AIDS continues to represent one of the main health problems facing today’s society. Its close connection with processes of stigmatization and social exclusion place it as a phenomenon from which the generation of cultural practices with a certain influence on the management and control of the pandemic can be understood. The present study analyzes the religious practices that a group of seropositive males eveloped from their diagnosis. For this, semi-structured interviews aimed at recovering the experienceof HIV were carried out, taking as a problematic core the irruption of diagnosis in everyday life. The results show that religion is an area that contains important contradictions in the incorporation of the condition of seropositive and that they mark the modalities of coping with this disease.