Family Health Strategy Team's Understanding of HIV: Actor-Network Theory

to understand health care for people living with HIV from the perspective of Family Health Strategy professionals, in light of Actor-Network Theory.

qualitative study with Family Health Strategy professionals in Recife, Brazil. Data were collected between October 2022 and April 2023 through semi-structured interviews. Analysis was conducted with the support of IRAMUTEQ software using Descending Hierarchical Classification.

six thematic categories emerged: training mediations-capacity-building as an actor in qualifying care; weakened support networks-the role of pharmaceutical services; Primary Health Care as the coordinating axis of networked care; controversies in continued care-fear, confidentiality, and exposure; and activation of health promotion, prevention, and surveillance within the care network.

challenges include universalizing rapid testing, resistance from some professional groups to new responsibilities, maintaining diagnostic confidentiality, and the persistence of stigma.