HIV grows in numbers in Brazil and around the world. In the whole world, about 42 millions people are HIV positive. Since the beginning of the 80's until September of 2003, there were 277.154 cases of HIV confirmed in Brazil. Behind those rates there is a sad reality: the epidemy grows at a rate 9 times higher among women. They are, in general, youngsters or married women or women with stable relationships, without promiscuous behavior and that acquired the virus inside their "home". Along with the discovery of the contamination caused by the virus, comes the painful truth of the betrayal of the partner, the implacable confirmation of the fragility of the conjugal relationship experienced, but mainly, the death of the ideal love myth, kept in an alliance or in a stable union. Each time more, feminine lives are reaped like this, with this story of unconditional love relative to the partner and total absence of self-esteem. Devotion, on one side and negligence, on another. More than a supposed philosophical, anthropological or ontological issue, I believe that in face of the numbers presented, the low feminine self-care is linked to a of public health problem. In this article, we will weave considerations about how we, health professionals can contribute to the management and development of new programs and prevention technologies that reach the feminine universe and effectively deviate it from the risk behavior.
HIV; Prevention; Woman; Health; Liberation