Violência e outras vulnerabilidades de gênero em mulheres vivendo com HIV/AIDS

In the process of feminization of HIV and in conjunction with some studies on gender inequalities, we identify some particular contextual situations involving women in big trouble material or symbolic ones, that diffi cult to protect themselves for infection or to take care of their health. The propose of this article is to present a theoretical discussion about ‘vulnerability gender’ as a category for guiding studies on women’s life contexts in which the affective components and situations of violence increase diffi culties in their health care, when HIV-infected, or in the prevention of disease. Considered, therefore, the aids feminization condition and its relations to gender vulnerability that women are subjected, especially to their violences situations. Such situations act as a trigger of context in relation to new vulnerabilities brought about by HIV status and show how violence and HIV-positive status are mutually reinforcing as vulnerabilities, worsening conditions for these women of gender subordination.