In the middle of the virus there is a person

a seropositive life story

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the life story of Luíza, a woman and mother who is HIV positive, from the popular segments of Rio de Janeiro. Accompanying her allowed us to understand a series of negotiations and existential and relational instances that conform her, ranging from her childhood, the moment of her pregnancy and micropolitical clashes from day to day. This text sought to make this interlocutor visible, using anthropological perspectives that inform us about social actions and the phenomenological analysis of the notion of the person. The relationship of kinship, the diagnosis of a moralizing and traumatizing illness, its daily treatment, maternity projects and the dynamics of gender as well as writing about these experiences seem to inform us that the detailed attention of a specific biography is a crucial outlet for the understanding of the experience lived by the actors and is therefore rich from the ethnographic point of view.