Being an indigenous woman, living with hiv and intimate partner violence: A triple vulnerability in the right to health [Ser mujer indígena, vivir con vih y violencia de pareja: Una triple vulneración frente al derecho a la salud]

Introduction: The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been reconfigured in the last decade, its tendency to feminization and ruralization is associated with gender violence and racial discrimination. Objective: To analyze from the framework of nursing care, the impact of intimate partner violence on the lives of indigenous women living with HIV. Methodology: A biographical study was carried out, the recovered information was processed through critical discourse analysis. Results: The stories recover the experiences of an indigenous woman who contracted HIV, and how the trajectory of the disease has been framed by partner violence and social discrimination. Conclusions: Intimate partner violence contributes to the vulnerability of indigenous women in the face of HIV/AIDS; the trajectory of the disease exacerbates the forms of violence experienced by these women. © 2018, Fundacion Index. All rights reserved.

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