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PASSERINO, Leila Martina. Imaginaries, biomedicine and normativity: an answer to the processes of HIV stigma and discrimination. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.2, pp.217-233. ISSN 1692-7273.

HIV treatment, as a problematic concerning collective health, requires new theoretical perspectives for its analysis. Objective: to reconstruct some imaginary matrixes, that shapes HIV infection, associated to normativity processes and formation of clinical knowledge; to exhibit consequences; to articulate these matrixes with discrimination and stigmatization issues implicated in the diagnosis. Materials and methods: in-depth interviews were made to young people between 18 and 35 years and health professionals dedicated to the HIV/AIDS treatment in public hospitals, in the cities of Santa Fe and Paraná (Argentina). Results: biomedical discourse essential as norm requirement and guarantor of standardization exercise in individuals and populations from the binomial normal/pathologic affects the diagnosis appropriation and coping with the infection. Conclusion: from the results, it is possible to understand stigmatization and discrimination processes, like privileged mechanisms that mediate in the configuration of HIV normativity discursive. Moreover, it is clear that the prevalent rejection in young people to undergo diagnostic test, and the difficulties in accessing health services, is a consequence of the indicated processes.

Palabras clave : HIV/AIDS; social imaginaries; norm; stigmatization; discrimination; biomedical discourse.

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