"Saber de SIDA" y cuidado sexual en mujeres jóvenes de sectores populares del cordón sur de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Apuntes para la definición de políticas de prevención

This study is part of a line of research on gender and prevention in a research program on the social construction of HIV/AIDS. We present the results of an ethnographic study among low-income women 15-35 years old in the southern area of Buenos Aires. The area has the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases and high poverty levels, extensive social degradation, and urban violence. According to our results, in the interface between "knowing about" and "behaving" there are complex processes involving stigmatized and gender-biased representations of HIV/AIDS as "other people's problem" and social and s...