Redefining empowerment and sexual negotiation for women living with HIV
P. R. health sci. j
;
17(3): 253-6, Sept. 1998.
Article
in English
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RESUMO
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has presented many challenges to both: researchers and care providers. In addition, the concepts and models of human behavior needed a re-examination in response to this pandemic. We are redefining both empowerment and sexual negotiation for women living with HIV. Empowerment is defined as a process of awareness throughout which women recognize their capacity to achieve individual and social changes. This process involves a mental and spiritual awareness that will enable them to focus on their physical, psychological and social aspects. For women living with HIV, this is also a strategy for survival. For women living with HIV, sexual negotiation is a straightforward issue: it is either safer sex or nothing. Safer sexual practices then are a consequence or by-product of the process of empowerment. To facilitate this process our approach is directed to the individual, in an attempt to reach the inner power source that all human beings share.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Sexual Behavior
/
Women
/
HIV Infections
Limits:
Female
/
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
P. R. health sci. j
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
1998
Type:
Article
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