SEXUAL DIFFICULTIES IN MEN CARRIERS OF HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Today, AIDS is a chronic illness. Studies and the Medical Society have developed politics and more efficient treatments with the intention of providing a better quality of life to the virus carriers. We notice from the work done with the women seropositive a constant complaint about the sexual difficulties in partners who are long-term diagnosed, even with ARV treatment or not. From a sample of 17 heterosexual men ( HIV/AIDS carriers), who have been diagnosed for at least 6 months and attended the specialized public health system in Sao Paulo, SP, we noticed a feeling of self-efficacy and a level of diadic and solitary sexual desire. The sample didn't show clinic complaints about sexual dysfunction. When compared, the average between the samples used and the clinic population with sexual complaints, are very similar, both suggesting the presence of sexual dysfunction. Even today, hardly anything has been done to listening and dealing with them.