TRAYECTORIA DE UNA INVESTIGACIÓN CON LA TEMÁTICA HIV/AIDS Límites e (Im)posibilidades

Abstract

The article presents the trajectory of a research group upon the development of the project funded by the Health Ministry, through the National HIV/AIDS/DST Program, named Impact of adhesion to the anti-retroviral among children and adolescents under the perspective of the family, the child and the adolescent in the municipalities of Porto Alegre and Santa Maria, RS. With the objective of presenting the stages of the research, from its planning up to the phase of data collection, the study was carried out in two municipalities simultaneously, counting on 20 participants comprising researchers and scholarship students. The stages developed until the data collection were: inclusion of care and teaching professionals in the research nucleus; selection and training of scholarship students; elaboration of the instrument; elaboration of a manual; team habilitation; application of the pilot test and of the data collected preliminarily.