Prácticas y creencias frente al vih-sida en adolescentes de comunidades indígenas. Una revisión narrativa

Abstract

Indigenous communities have great elements of their own and characteristics in terms of traditions, rites, uses and customs, language and organizational processes that are integrated into their worldview or way of seeing and interpreting the world, which is why this work contains different points of view on HIV-AIDS building through different identities and ethnic belonging as a transversal axis to the inquiry process. The method used was a narrative review of the literature in order to inquire from the findings presented by the different authors on practices and beliefs. The results of this review indicate that the practices and beliefs regarding HIV-AIDS in adolescents from Indigenous communities are based on empirical knowledge; broadly speaking, the abandonment of government entities can be seen, in effect, little or no access to health services that contribute to self-care activities. It is concluded then that there is a lack of commitment and support on the part of government entities in matters of health services to indigenous communities in order to reduce the rates of HIV-AIDS in these population groups.