SEROLOGICAL COUNSELING: A STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING STIS IN INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS, LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES

Abstract

In this study we seek to study the methodology of serological counseling, its possibilities and limitations regarding this STI/AIDS strategy used in the indigenous populations of Manacapuru. Despite the advice in the field of STI/AIDS is considered, in different regions of the world as a major strategy for primary prevention, secondary and tertiary services deployed in the basic health network, both national and international studies show that this practice still concentrates a significant dose of weaknesses and problems. For Indigenous Health, the relevance is given to understand the importance and possibilities of implementation of counseling in indigenous populations of Manacapuru, with all the possibilities and limitations inherent in this theme related to a population as vulnerable in several respects. This study aimed to rescue the conceptual origins of counseling on STI/AIDS, to identify and critically analyze the role of counseling in STI/AIDS, pointing out their contributions, limits and possibilities of application in indigenous populations in an interethnic and intercultural context. In addition, we sought to understand the context of indigenous health care Manacapuru and the real possibilities of implementing the advice Serologic this context. It is therefore a qualitative study, based on analysis of documents and literature review of secondary sources of counseling for STD/AIDS and the AIDS epidemic aimed at the indigenous population. We tried to put in evidence both the strengths and weaknesses of this approach to deal with the inherent complexity of this epidemic in a context so peculiar and complex. It is of utmost importance to see counseling as a space where the action is geared to the needs and characteristics of the client and not returned to address the multiple demands of the policy of prevention and care, because it should never be seen as an isolated action but should always be inserted into a broader strategy where we add other types of intervention.