Challenges of HIV/Aids Prevention in Lesbian Women

Luiz Victor da Silva Moreira, Rodrigo Vilhena dos Santos, Vencelau Jackson da Conceição Pantoja, Nely Dayse Santos da Mata, Rubens Alex de Oliveira Menezes, Camila Rodrigues Barbosa Nemer

Abstract

The scarcity of research on HIV/AIDS prevention among lesbian women is due to the low perception of risk in relation to contamination by the virus. This research aimed to analyze the evidence available in the literature on HIV/AIDS prevention in lesbian women. This is an integrative review of the literature, carried out in the Virtual Health Library (VHL), in the Nursing Databases (BDENF), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), with a 10-year time frame (2013 to 2023). In the search, terms and descriptors were used, combined with each other using the Boolean operators AND and OR. Based on the searches, 20 articles were obtained that were related to the topic, and three categories emerged: Category 1 - Barriers in health services; Category 2 - Lack of care programs for the lesbian community; Category 3 - Sexual vulnerability. The research highlighted the invisibility of the lesbian population as vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and the weaknesses of health care, considering the challenges of an interprofessional, interdisciplinary and humanized approach to developing an adequate and comprehensive care plan in managing the care of these women.

Published
2024-06-08