The offer of the anti-HIV test to the users of the health basic net units: different aproaches of professionals

Abstract

Objective: To identify and describe the behaviors of health professionals in the offer of anti-HIV test; to analyze the practices of professionals from the accounts of users of the basic health services. Method: descriptive, qualitative study with 40 women attended at 08 Municipal Health Centers. Results: the discursive production of the interviews was subjected to Alceste program, constituting two categories of analysis. The first includes approaches in individual care in the MHC network of Rio de Janeiro describing the three modes of conduct of health professionals during the provision of HIV testing. The second category refers to the approaches in collective care, which shows that the counseling activities do not occur uniformly. Conclusion: the results point to a practice that distorts what is recommended by official programs in relation to the Counseling Programs.