Abstract
Objective: To know the knowledge and practices of pregnant women with HIV seropositivity on self-care. Methods: A focal group of pregnant women who have HIV seropositivity in a referral center for HIV/AIDS in the public health system, located in Belém-PA. Data collection was performed in the month of July 2019. All the content of the focal group was recorded, transcribed in its integration, organized and analyzed by using the word cloud, by the software IRAMUTEQ. After this, the interpretation of the meanings of the words in the discourses of the pregnant women was performed. Results: Ten pregnant women participated in the group, where the majority presented knowledge about self-care, in the I understand they presented doubts about how to perform their practices. It was also observed by the totality of the wheel the fear of prejudice that is generated around the theme. Conclusion: It is hoped that this study may help other research and health teams to develop strategies that can sensitively raise the population about the need to know and understand the perspective of pregnant women with HIV.