For some time now, young people have represented the main people infected with the HIV virus in Brazil, according to the World Health Organization and Unaids – the Joint United Nations Program for the cause. According to the Department of STD, AIDS and Viral Hepatitis of the Ministry of Health, the rate of infections among this public began in 2006 and has only grown since then. Between 2006 and 2015, the incidence of infection in the age group of 15 to 19 years went from 2,4 per 100 thousand inhabitants to 6,9; in the public aged 20 to 24 it went from 15,9 to 33,1 infected. Between 25 and 29 years old, it went from 40,9 to 49,5. In Brazil, the Ministry of Health estimates that more than 820 people are living with the virus. Of this total, more than 600 have already been diagnosed and more than 400 are undergoing treatment. Just over 100 do not know their serology. Although it is not a current topic, HIV still represents a taboo in society, which contributes to the increase in virus infection rates and stigma towards the carrier. If medicine has evolved significantly and antiretrovirals provide quality and life expectancy for HIV-positive people, prejudice and ignorance regarding the subject has changed little. Combining this lack of knowledge on the subject and the reluctance to talk about sex and sexual health with the fact that young people are starting their sexual lives at an increasingly earlier age – and increasingly neglecting condoms – it will be difficult to reverse this situation. With this in mind, a group of university students studying journalism at Anhembi Morumbi University produced a video documentary for the Course Completion Work (TCC) about HIV among young people in the state of São Paulo that tries to demystify the daily lives of these people. For the prevention manager at the São Paulo STD/AIDS Reference and Treatment Center, sex is good, but always with a condom (the specialist's speech is in the documentary). Still according to Ivone, it is important to talk about the subject, but not treating the agent as if we were at the beginning of the epidemic, in 1981, but rather about the reality of the virus today and, mainly, showing that there is a life beyond HIV. In their statements, the young people emphasize that they lead normal lives, however, it would be “much better” if they were not carriers. However, at the heart of the audiovisual product is prejudice. For these people who live daily with both (the virus and prejudice), the second is much worse than the first, as HIV is treatable, while prejudice is not. Check out:
