[Understanding what is lived by the being-couple in face of the prophylaxis of vertical HIV transmission]. / Compreensão do vivido do ser-casal diante da profilaxia da transmissão vertical do HIV.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the couple's perspective, the experience of prevention care against the vertical transmission of HIV. METHOD: Heidegger's phenomenological research conducted with 14 participants, through interviews from December / 2011 to February / 2012 in a hospital in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Analysis performed with Martin Heidegger's framework. RESULTS the being-couple unveiled the sense of fear, initially in the variation of dread when terrified due to the HIV infection discovery, and later in the horror variation when treatment was needed during gestation and finally in the terror variation when considering the chances of viral transmission to their child. CONCLUSIONS: Health care attention that enables the couple to assume a leading role in the prophylaxis of vertical transmission is recommended, which will reflect positively on the health of pregnant women and in reducing neonatal and infant mortality as a result from AIDS.

Reproductive planning and pregnancy of HIV serodiscordant couples: a phenomenological study.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the experience of reproductive planning and pregnancy for HIV serodiscordant couples. METHOD: Qualitative study, with phenomenological approach, theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework of Martin Heidegger. The field stage took place in a reference service in the care for people living with HIV, in southern Brazil. From an intentional sample, a phenomenological interview was conducted with 11 couples between August 2013 and April 2014. The analysis was hermeneutic. RESULTS: It was possible to understand, from the meaning units that: couples accept and overcome the serological discordance together; experiencing pregnancy is difficult; there is an effort to have a normal life; the diagnosis is silenced by prejudice and stigma; comes the couple's relief after the child's negative diagnosis. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to recognize the couple as a unit of care with a view to a non-fragmented care in the field of sexual and reproductive health.

The experience of reproductive planning of female military firefighters.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the experience of reproductive planning of female military firefighter health professionals. METHOD: Phenomenological research under the theoretical-philosophical and methodological framework of Martin Heidegger. Developed in Fire Department units in Rio de Janeiro in the first half of 2016, with 21 female military health professionals. RESULTS: Women expressed that it is necessary to work and manage roles. Therefore, they have to plan to have a child, due to the difficulty of managing all the tasks and reconciling motherhood with work. They think of a more comfortable situation to dedicate themselves to their children, since they are the main responsiblefor them. CONCLUSIONS: Comprehensive health actions for military women need to be included in public policies, as it is a group that has been increasingly participating in an environment previously restricted to men and with their characteristics.

Existing as a being-with-heart-disease-who-developed-pressure-wounds: an understanding based on Martin Heidegger.

OBJECTIVE: To understand, using Martin Heidegger's phenomenological framework, the Being who experiences a heart disease and develops a pressure injury. METHOD: Qualitative, phenomenological study using Martin Heidegger's theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework. Nine participants were interviewed at their residences, from October to December 2015, Ceará. RESULTS: Six meaning units were revealed: experiencing difficulties; dealing with the treatment of pressure wounds; not knowing the cardiac disease; being supported by family and friends; experiencing changes caused by disease; and maintaining faith in God. These Daily life was apprehended in an inauthentic life, chatter, curiosity, and ambivalence. Imprisoned to the vigor of having been, they live in anguish, supported by the faith in God and being-with-others in a movement of attentiveness. CONCLUSION: The phenomenon interferes with patients and families' daily lives rendering them vulnerable. There is a need for nursing to reflect on this experience and incorporate care that reaches human existence.

Identity dimension of rural women and the sexual and reproductive health.

OBJECTIVES: to analyze the social representations of rural women about being a woman in the rural context and its implications for sexual and reproductive health. METHODS: this is a descriptive qualitative study with data triangulation, based on the Theory of Social Representations, developed with 31 women who live in the rural context of Minas Gerais (MG/BR). An in-depth interview with a semi-structured script was conducted. A lexical analysis was performed with the help of the ALCESTE 2012 software. RESULTS: the family relationship, especially the couple's, demonstrated subjectivities and was permeated by violence and normalized sexual practice. The imagery dimension of the ideal family seems to be responsible for exerting domination over rural women. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: rural women are subject to the norms and prescriptions of a patriarchal society. It is urgent to increase attention to sexual and reproductive health in an egalitarian and liberating way in order to minimize the consequences of machismo and conservatism.

Experienced concept of breast cancer survivors: directions for nursing and health care.

OBJECTIVE: To unveil the existential movement of being a woman survivor of breast cancer. METHOD: Qualitative, phenomenological, with Heideggerian analytics from 15 interviews, between October2020 and January2021 in a teaching hospital in Minas Gerais. The construction of seven Meaning Units was followed by comprehensive methodical moments. RESULTS: The being-there-woman-survivor-of-breast-cancer showed itself in the ways of being of everyday life, occupied in manuality of tasks inside and outside the home, moved by impersonality and impropriety. The fear of death, gossip, curiosity and ambiguity were revealed that led to decadence, experienced in the world of treatment and follow-up, enabling being-with. The anguish that announced itself fleetingly was followed by the decadence that most of the time the presence remains. CONCLUSION: The need to structure a specialized and interdisciplinary line of care is reinforced, in which care centered on active and qualified listening encompasses multidimensionality, envisioning women in aspects that permeate cancer survival.

Death of children by domestic accidents: unveiling the maternal experience.

OBJECTIVES: to unveil the meanings of mothers whose children died as a result of domestic accidents in childhood. METHODS: a qualitative research, in the light of Heideggerian phenomenology, with ten mothers whose children died from domestic accidents. It was carried out in a municipality of the Northeast Region of Brazil through phenomenological interviews between May and June 2017. The existential analytic was constituted by the comprehensive moments of the Heideggerian method. RESULTS: the meanings unveiled pointed out that, to understand the sudden death of her child, the mother oscillates between feeling guilty, pointing and denying guilt. She reports emptiness, permanent pain, non-acceptance of her child's death, and the desire to keep him in her life. In this journey, the fear that brings limitations to her life and that of her other children is revealed. Final Considerations: it was revealed that the death of the child in infancy compromises the integrality of being a mother, indicating the need for systematic and continuous care for the adequate management of the emotional and social effects.

Social support networks for women in situation of intimate partner violence.

OBJECTIVES: to analyze the possibilities of support that the social support network offers to women in situations of intimate partner violence. METHODS: qualitative research anchored in Sanicola's social network framework. A total of 21 women attended at a specialized social assistance service in Porto Velho-Rondônia, Brazil, participated in a semi-structured interview. RESULTS: the analysis of network maps showed that the secondary social support network mobilized had a central character in the lives of women in situations of violence. These women sought the third sector's secondary network, the churches, from which they received emotional-affective and spiritual support. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: understanding the social network setting and the type of support offered can contribute to improving care for women and strengthening interpersonal and institutional ties that help in the search for breaking the situation of violence.

[Adolescents under socio-educational measures: everyday ways of being and possibilities for nursing]. / Adolescente que cumpre medida socioeducativa: modos de ser no cotidiano e possibilidades para enfermagem.

This study aimed to understand the routine of the adolescent-being, who is under semi-liberty socio-educational measures. A phenomenological research was developed in unit of the Socio-Educational Treatment Foundation (Fundação de Atendimento Socioeducativo), in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Interviews were held with nine adolescents, from February to May, 2009. The Heideggerian analysis un-veiled that this socio-educational measure means a prison for them, something bad. They know they are not in the prison system due to their age and re-cognize they have thrown away their adolescence. In the institution, these youngsters go to school to learn something, to get some job. They express themselves through gossip, ambiguity and occupation. The conclusion is that the teenager is-thrown in that which is determined and remain in impersonality. For social reintegration they need the help of the socio-educational system, mediated by interdisciplinary work, and a support network for which the family, community and State are co-responsible.

[The daily routine of women infected with HIV/AIDS way of being in the face of the impossibility of breastfeeding]. / Cotidianidade da mulher que tem HIV/AIDS: modo de ser diante da (im)possibilidade de amamentar.

The purpose of this phenomenological research is to understand the daily routine of women infected with the virus of human immunodeficiency (HIV) prevented from breastfeeding. Twelve women were interviewed in a university hospital in southern Brazil. Their statements, analyzed through a Heideggerian approach, showed that the women reveal themselves as beings-in-the-world and are mainly impersonal. The way of being of de-cadence was unveiled and expressed by occupation, gossip, curiosity, ambiguity, fear, and the inauthenticity of the pact of silence and the unsaid. The helpful care mediated by a dialogic relationship between mother and son/daughter between the woman and the professional, showed the possibility of movement from inauthenticity to authenticity. We recommend the use of direct and dialogued interaction as an assistance strategy, mediated by listening, empathy and intersubjectivity, and developed through the comprehension of the way of being of the human being in the face of the impossibilities imposed by the serological condition and in their attempt to unveil their possibilities.

[Daily-life of women after hysterectomy supported by Hiedegger's thought]. / Cotidiano da mulher pós-histerectomia à luz do pensamento de Heidegger.

This qualitative study had as its object the daily-life of women after being submitted to a histerectomy. Following this sense the phenomenological approach was chosen as methodological framework , supported by Martin Heidegger phenomenology. The deponents were twenty five women submitted to a histerectomy at HU/UFJF in 2006. The interpretative understanding, showed, under Hedegger perspective, that women s daily-life after being submitted to histerectomy expresses itself in a movement that goes forward and backward for inauthenticity to an indication of properties and improperties. In the daily-life after the surgery is that she understands herself as being-there-with-the-other and revealing herself as "being-of-possibilities" in a self world. It showed that the assistential dynamics must be considered from the perspective of the subjectivity of the woman who will be submitted to histerectomy.

Nursing work in assisted human reproduction: between technology and humanization.

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the social representations of nurses who work with assisted human reproduction about the operation with reproductive biotechnologies. METHODS: Qualitative approach, supported by the Theory of Social Representations, with sixteen participants. Individual, semi-structured interviews, analyzed through the Alceste software. RESULTS: Pragmatic elements related to nurses' performance from a professional, institutional, and public policy perspective in reproductive biotechnologies emerged, demonstrating the practical dimension of these representations. The characteristics of the professional to act in this area were addressed, showing the lack of information and search for scientificity; precarious perception of the organizational structure of health services; and attributions of nursing care arising from the health care practice in assisted human reproduction. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Social representation is anchored in the link between technology/medicalization and humanization/reception regarding reproductive biotechnologies. Working in assisted human reproduction involves a new and challenging nursing care, requiring specific and ethical knowledge.

The use of social network methodological framework in nursing care to breastfeeding women.

This study aimed to discuss the contribution of the social network methodological framework in nursing care delivered to women who breastfeed their children up to six months of age. This qualitative study aimed to elaborate the social network map of 20 women through tape-recorded interview. Social network analysis evidenced a 'strong' bond between these women and members from their primary network, especially friends, neighbors, mothers or with the child's father, who were reported as the people most involved in the breastfeeding period. The contribution of this framework to nursing practice is discussed, especially in care and research processes. We believe that nurses' appropriation of this framework can be an important support for efficacious actions, as well as to favor a broader perspective on the social context people experience.

Operationality of concepts in Heideggerian phenomenological investigation: epistemological reflection on Nursing.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the investigative path of analysis and the operationality of concepts based on Martin Heidegger's theoretical and philosophical framework. METHOD: Theoretical reflection on the phenomenon of pregnancy in a woman with heart disease. RESULTS: Stages of the investigative movement were evidenced based on the pre-reflection related to the object of study and to the search for the phenomenal meaning, using the existential and analytical Hermeneutics as the approach and resulting in the reach of the phenomenal totality. CONCLUSION: The worldview of the researcher, who considered the subjectivities of the person in a health or disease situation, favored the announcement of the referential by the object of study. Knowledge production in the light of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology unveiled phenomena lived and experienced in the Health and Nursing field, provided of epistemological rigor that demanded appropriation of concepts inherent to the existential analytics.

Aleitamento materno no contexto da prematuridade: estudo comparativo

Objetivo: analisar e comparar a estrutura e o processo de aleitamento materno do recém nascido prematuro em unidades de terapia intensiva neonatal na perspectiva dos profissionais de saúde. Método: estudo transversal realizado com 148 profissionais de saúde de duas unidades neonatais de dois hospitais universitários que foram entrevistados por meio de um formulário. A instituição A possui o título de hospital amigo da criança, Banco de Leite Humano e foram entrevistados 98 profissionais. Na instituição B foram entrevistados 50 profissionais. Os dados foram analisados pela estatística descritiva, pelos testes de X2 de Pearson e Exato de Fisher. Resultados: Menos da metade dos profissionais entrevistados de ambas as instituições (31,15%) apoiava a realização da primeira ordenha mamária; 7,4% estimulava todos os membros da família a realizarem a posição canguru na unidade neonatal e 3,4% estimulava a continuidade desse cuidado pela família no domicílio. Os profissionais da instituição A orientam mais sobre a existência de grupos de apoio para amamentação (p=0,00001) e sobre o acesso a grupos ou serviços de apoio após a alta hospitalar (p=0,004472) do que os profissionais da instituição B. Conclusão: o estudo verificou que existem fragilidades na estrutura e no processo de aleitamento materno em relação as ações de promoção e apoio em ambos serviços de saúde.

Identity dimension of rural women and the sexual and reproductive health / Dimensión identitaria de las mujeres rurales y la salud sexual y reproductiva / Dimensão identitária da mulher rural e a saúde sexual e saúde reprodutiva

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the social representations of rural women about being a woman in the rural context and its implications for sexual and reproductive health. Methods: this is a descriptive qualitative study with data triangulation, based on the Theory of Social Representations, developed with 31 women who live in the rural context of Minas Gerais (MG/BR). An in-depth interview with a semi-structured script was conducted. A lexical analysis was performed with the help of the ALCESTE 2012 software. Results: the family relationship, especially the couple's, demonstrated subjectivities and was permeated by violence and normalized sexual practice. The imagery dimension of the ideal family seems to be responsible for exerting domination over rural women. Final Considerations: rural women are subject to the norms and prescriptions of a patriarchal society. It is urgent to increase attention to sexual and reproductive health in an egalitarian and liberating way in order to minimize the consequences of machismo and conservatism.

RESUMEN Objetivos: analizar las representaciones sociales de las mujeres rurales sobre ser mujer en el contexto rural y sus implicaciones para la salud sexual y reproductiva. Métodos: estudio cualitativo descriptivo con triangulación de datos, basado en la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales, desarrollado con 31 mujeres que viven en el contexto rural de Minas Gerais (MG/BR). Se realizó una entrevista en profundidad con guión semiestructurado. Se realizó un análisis léxico con la ayuda del software ALCESTE 2012. Resultados: la relación familiar, especialmente de pareja, demostró subjetividades y estuvo permeada por la violencia y la práctica sexual normalizada. La dimensión imaginaria de la familia ideal parece ser la responsable de ejercer la dominación sobre las mujeres rurales. Consideraciones Finales: la mujer rural está sujeta a las normas y prescripciones de una sociedad patriarcal. Es urgente aumentar la atención a la salud sexual y reproductiva de manera igualitaria y liberadora para minimizar las consecuencias del machismo y el conservadurismo.

RESUMO Objetivos: analisar as representações sociais de mulheres rurais sobre ser mulher no contexto rural e suas implicações na saúde sexual e saúde reprodutiva. Métodos: trata-se de um estudo descritivo, com triangulação dos dados, abordagem qualitativa, fundamentado na Teoria das Representações Sociais, realizado com 31 mulheres que vivem no contexto rural em Minas Gerais (MG/BR). Realizou-se entrevista em profundidade com roteiro semiestruturado. A análise foi do tipo lexical com auxílio do software Alceste 2012. Resultados: foram evidenciadas as subjetividades do relacionamento familiar, em especial do casal, sendo permeado pela violência e pela prática sexual normatizada. A dimensão imagética da família ideal parece ser responsável por exercer a dominação da mulher rural. Considerações Finais: a mulher rural encontra-se submetida às normas e prescrições de uma sociedade patriarcal. Faz-se urgente ampliar a atenção sobre a saúde sexual e saúde reprodutiva de forma igualitária e libertadora, no sentido de minimizar as consequências do machismo e do conservadorismo.

[Musculoskeletal disorders in nursing workers: evidences associated to work conditions]. / Distúrbios musculo-esqueléticos em trabalhadores de enfermagem: associação com condições de trabalho.

This paper presents a review of national scientific articles that researched about musculoskeletal disorders in nursing workers. It was analyzed the articles published in MEDLINE, LILACS, BDENF-BIREME data basis, during the period of 1996 to 2005. The following selection criteria were adopted: musculoskeletal outcomes, nursing workers' population and publications in national journals indexed in the BIREME system. Fifteen articles met all the selection criteria. In most of them, the inappropriate work conditions were identified as risk factors for the development of musculoskeletal disorders. In these articles, the authors debate the necessity, not only, of a more in-depth research method about musculoskeletal disorders related to the nursing job, but also, the necessity to rethink the work organization.

The experience of reproductive planning of female military firefighters / La experiencia de la planificación reproductiva de mujeres bomberas militares / O vivido do planejamento reprodutivo de mulheres bombeiras militares

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the experience of reproductive planning of female military firefighter health professionals. Method: Phenomenological research under the theoretical-philosophical and methodological framework of Martin Heidegger. Developed in Fire Department units in Rio de Janeiro in the first half of 2016, with 21 female military health professionals. Results: Women expressed that it is necessary to work and manage roles. Therefore, they have to plan to have a child, due to the difficulty of managing all the tasks and reconciling motherhood with work. They think of a more comfortable situation to dedicate themselves to their children, since they are the main responsiblefor them. Conclusions: Comprehensive health actions for military women need to be included in public policies, as it is a group that has been increasingly participating in an environment previously restricted to men and with their characteristics.

RESUMEN Objetivo: Comprender la experiencia de planificación reproductiva de las bomberas militares profesionales de la salud. Método: Investigación fenomenológica bajo el marco teórico-filosófico y metodológico de Martin Heidegger. Desarrollado en unidades del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Río de Janeiro en el primer semestre de 2016 con 21 mujeres profesionales de la salud militar. Resultados: Las mujeres expresaron que es necesario trabajar y conciliar los roles. Por lo tanto, tienen que planificar tener un hijo debido a la dificultad de gestionar todas las tareas y conciliar la maternidad con el trabajo. Piensan en una situación más cómoda para dedicarse a sus hijos, ya que son los principales responsables de ellos. Conclusiones: Es necesario incluir en las políticas públicas acciones integrales de salud para las mujeres militares, ya que es un grupo que ha venido participando cada vez más en un entorno antes restringido a los hombres y con características afines a ellos.

RESUMO Objetivo: Compreender o vivido do planejamento reprodutivo de bombeiras militares profissionais da saúde. Método: Investigação fenomenológica sob o referencial teórico-filosófico e metodológico de Martin Heidegger. Desenvolvida em unidades de Corpo de Bombeiros do Rio de Janeiro no primeiro semestre de 2016 com 21 mulheres militares profissionais da saúde. Resultados: As mulheres expressaram que é necessário trabalhar e conciliar os papéis. Por isso, têm que se programar para ter filho devido à dificuldade de administrar todos os afazeres e conciliar a maternidade com o trabalho. Elas pensam numa situação mais confortável para se dedicar aos filhos, sendo elas as principais responsáveis por eles. Conclusões: Ações de saúde integral das mulheres militares necessitam ser incluídas nas políticas públicas, pois é um grupo que vem participando cada vez mais em um ambiente anteriormente restrito aos homens e com características relacionadas a eles.

Death of children by domestic accidents: unveiling the maternal experience / Muerte de niños por accidentes domésticos: desvelando la experiencia materna / Morte de crianças por acidentes domésticos: desvelando a experiência materna

ABSTRACT Objectives: to unveil the meanings of mothers whose children died as a result of domestic accidents in childhood. Methods: a qualitative research, in the light of Heideggerian phenomenology, with ten mothers whose children died from domestic accidents. It was carried out in a municipality of the Northeast Region of Brazil through phenomenological interviews between May and June 2017. The existential analytic was constituted by the comprehensive moments of the Heideggerian method. Results: the meanings unveiled pointed out that, to understand the sudden death of her child, the mother oscillates between feeling guilty, pointing and denying guilt. She reports emptiness, permanent pain, non-acceptance of her child's death, and the desire to keep him in her life. In this journey, the fear that brings limitations to her life and that of her other children is revealed. Final Considerations: it was revealed that the death of the child in infancy compromises the integrality of being a mother, indicating the need for systematic and continuous care for the adequate management of the emotional and social effects.

RESUMEN Objetivos: desvelar sentidos de madres cuyos hijos murieron en consecuencia de accidentes domésticos en la infancia. Métodos: investigación cualitativa, basada en la fenomenología de Heidegger, con diez madres cuyos hijos murieron por accidentes domésticos. Realizado em municipio del Nordeste brasileño mediante entrevista fenomenológica entre mayo y junio de 2017. Analítica existencial constituida por momentos comprensivos del método de Heidegger. Resultados: los sentidos desvelados apuntaron que, para comprender la muerte repentina del hijo, la madre oscila entre sentirse culpable, apuntar y negar culpables. Refiere vacío, dolor permanente, no aceptación de la muerte del hijo y deseo de mantenerlo en su vivido. En ese caminar, revela el miedo que trae limitaciones para su vida y sus otros hijos. Consideraciones Finales: se desveló que la muerte del hijo en la infancia compromete la integralidad del ser madre, indicando la necesidad de cuidado sistematizado y continuo para conducción adecuada de efectos emocionales y sociales.

RESUMO Objetivos: desvelar os sentidos de mães cujos filhos morreram em decorrência de acidentes domésticos na infância. Métodos: pesquisa qualitativa, à luz da fenomenologia heideggeriana, com dez mães cujos filhos morreram por acidentes domésticos. Realizou-se em município da Região Nordeste do Brasil mediante entrevista fenomenológica entre maio e junho de 2017. A analítica existencial constituiu-se pelos momentos compreensivos do método heideggeriano. Resultados: os sentidos desvelados apontaram que, para compreender a morte repentina do filho, a mãe oscila entre sentir-se culpada, apontar e negar culpados. Refere vazio, dor permanente, não aceitação da morte do filho e desejo de mantê-lo em seu vivido. Nesse caminhar, revela-se o medo que traz limitações para sua vida e a de seus outros filhos. Considerações Finais: desvelou-se que a morte do filho na infância compromete a integralidade do ser mãe, indicando a necessidade de cuidado sistematizado e contínuo para a condução adequada dos efeitos emocionais e sociais.

Reproductive planning and pregnancy of HIV serodiscordant couples: a phenomenological study / Planificación reproductiva y embarazo de parejas serodiscordantes para el VIH: uno estudio fenomenológico / Planejamento reprodutivo e gestação de casais sorodiferentes para o HIV: um estudo fenomenológico

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the experience of reproductive planning and pregnancy for HIV serodiscordant couples. Method: Qualitative study, with phenomenological approach, theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework of Martin Heidegger. The field stage took place in a reference service in the care for people living with HIV, in southern Brazil. From an intentional sample, a phenomenological interview was conducted with 11 couples between August 2013 and April 2014. The analysis was hermeneutic. Results: It was possible to understand, from the meaning units that: couples accept and overcome the serological discordance together; experiencing pregnancy is difficult; there is an effort to have a normal life; the diagnosis is silenced by prejudice and stigma; comes the couple's relief after the child's negative diagnosis. Conclusion: It is necessary to recognize the couple as a unit of care with a view to a non-fragmented care in the field of sexual and reproductive health.

RESUMEN Objetivo: Comprender la experiencia de planificación reproductiva y embarazo de parejas VIH serodiscordantes. Método: Estudio cualitativo, en el enfoque fenomenológico, marco teórico-filosófico-metodológico de Martin Heidegger. La etapa de campo se llevó a cabo en un servicio de referencia en la atención a personas que viven con VIH, en el sur de Brasil. A partir de una muestra intencional, se realizó una entrevista fenomenológica con 11 parejas entre agosto de 2013 y abril de 2014. Análisis hermenéutico. Resultados: Fue posible comprender, a partir de las unidades de significado, que: las parejas aceptan y superan juntos la discordancia serológica; vivir el embarazo fue difícil; hay esfuerzo por tener una vida normal; es silenciado por el prejuicio y el estigma; llega el alivio de la pareja tras el diagnóstico negativo del niño. Conclusión: Es necesario reconocer a la pareja como unidad de cuidado con miras a no fragmentar la atención en el campo de la salud sexual y reproductiva.

RESUMO Objetivo: Compreender o vivido do planejamento reprodutivo e da gestação para casais sorodiferentes para o HIV. Método: Estudo qualitativo, na abordagem fenomenológica, referencial teórico-filosófico-metodológico de Martin Heidegger. A etapa de campo foi em serviço de referência na atenção a pessoas soropositivas, no Sul do Brasil. A partir de amostra intencional, foi realizada a entrevista fenomenológica com 11 casais entre agosto de 2013 e abril de 2014. A análise foi hermenêutica. Resultados: Foi possível compreender, a partir das unidades de significação que: os casais se aceitam e superam juntos a diferença sorológica; vivenciar a gravidez é difícil; há empenho para se ter uma vida normal; o diagnóstico é silenciado pelo preconceito e estigma; vem o alívio do casal após o diagnóstico negativo do filho. Conclusão: É necessário reconhecer o casal como uma unidade de cuidado com vistas a uma atenção não fragmentada no campo da saúde sexual e reprodutiva.