El SIDA como enfermedad social: análisis de su presencia e investigación

Abstract

With the object to analyze the psychosocial elements that define the spreading of the VIH/AIDS, the Unit of Investigation coordinated by José R. Bueno Abad, professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Valencia has investigated on these aspects, with the fundamental purpose of the detection, and analysis of the VIH social representations. Next, it exposed some of the basic aspects of the illness, their course and processing, revealed in the initial phases of dates collected in our investigation, from different investigations. This data come of more than four hundred bibliographical references the different investigations carried out at the present time, besides more fifty websites collecting in this article. The most important of the consulted studies is that these, have contemplated in the therapy of the AIDS the point of view of the social research regarding their origin and prognosis of this illness. Our investigation maintains the urgent need to explore the social images of the VIH/AIDS, in order to determine, those social representations and social value that permit an adequate management of this epidemic.