Vulnerability and HIV / AIDS in adolescence: An epidemic that advances in women

The incidence of HIV/AIDS among teenagers in Brazil have increased considerably, specially among females. Its important to notice that although the incidence among men is still higher than among women, with the teenagers  the situation is the opposite.
Since 2000 a question is occupying the attention of the whole society, especially the professionals of public health: why adolescent girls are being more HIV-infected than boys?

 The objective of this study is to analyze cultural, social, psychological, biological and gender vulnerabilities that turns female teenagers into a group of risk.
It is a bibliographic research which used data from Brazilian Ministry of Health, Word Health Organization, as well as other recent studies.

 

 The study concludes that AIDS brings changes in habits and more discussions about female sexuality, but not enough to translate into prevention in adolescence compared to the strength of social indicators of vulnerability such as low education, lack of information, poverty, violence, and issues of domination and "gender".

Our concern here was to find arguments that help us to discuss some possibilities for access to the reality that is configured as problematic: the vulnerability of women to HIV adolescents in the country.
We question the effectiveness of campaigns to prevent AIDS, afirm the role of schools in public health, and the responsibility of health professionals as agents to combat lack of information about sexuality and reproduction.
Finally, the battle against AIDS and HIV prevention calls for the first time in history, an epidemic in the path of human rights. AIDS and citizenship are two words that go together and psychology, as a field of knowledge and practice in construction, can not but consider its importance in guaranteeing these rights and ethics, the social role that fits him.