REPLACEMENT IN THE WORK MARKET. BARRIERS AND SILENCE IN THE COPING OF THE EXCLUSION FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS

Abstract

The people who live with HIV/AIDS, besides facing the resulting difficulties of the infection for the virus, have that to deal with problems of economic order as the exclusion of the work market. Such exclusion brings as consequences the material difficulties and the removal of the carrier of the social conviviality, harming auto-esteem and some psychosocial resources for the confrontation to the HIV/AIDS. Despite the transmission being little probable in the workstations, this fact has been used for employers as excuse for the resignation or the refusal of these people. This research had as objective to identify difficulties found for the replacement of HIV-positive patients in the work market. Half-structuralized interviews with 10 people had been carried through, of both the sexes, with average time of 5 years for HIV-seropositive status, average of 34 years of age and minimum of basic education. The interviews had been made in accordance with mandate procedures of evocation/articulation/verification aiming at to eliminate the effect of induction of answers. The results indicate that absenteeism, stigma, delays, damages to the health provoked by opportunist illnesses and collateral medicine effect are strong determinants of the difficulties for the replacement in the work market. Also, the fear of stigma or rejection hinders the socialization of the HIV-seropositive status to the fellow workers and commands, determining a lack of perspective how much to the chances to obtain a new job. Such results constitute important subsidiary elements for the conception of programs that aims the replacement and orientation of these people in the work market.