HIV serodiscordant sexual partners: social representations of health care professionals.

Objectives: to understand the structure of the social representations of health professionals from HIV/AIDS Specialized Care Services about HIV-positive partners.

Methods: this is a qualitative study, based on the structural aspect of Social Representations, developed in specialized services of the metropolitan area of a state in the Northeast Region. Fifty-one professionals were interviewed using the technique of free association of words, processed by the software IRaMuTeQ, by means of prototypical and similarity analysis.