Confruntări şi provocări ale cuplurilor serodiscordante
Struggles and Challenges as a Serodiscordant Couple

Summary/Abstract: The HIV/AIDS epidemic existed during the period 1986‑1992, when many children were cases of nosocomial infected transmission, but even after that, especially because of injectable drug usage. For example, new psychoaffective substances were the cause of many HIV infections. That and the misinformation of the general population about HIV transmission lead to the stigmatization and discrimination of people living with HIV. Stigmatization and/or discrimination would considerably decrease if the society would be correctly informed, starting with primary socialization in order to know people living with HIV, so that the degree of acceptance of an HIV positive person at the workplace, in the friends’ group or even with a life partner would be higher. Serodiscordant couples are the couples in which a partner is HIV positive, and the other is HIV negative. These couples, alike common couples, are based on communication, acceptance, and trust. Of course, there are also problems, especially when it comes to disclosure of HIV/AIDS diagnosis. The disclosure of HIV diagnosis is a very difficult process because there is a probability that the people living with HIV/AIDS would not know how to fairly and delicately approach the situation, especially when it comes to disclosing the diagnostic to the partner. Fortunately, even if the seronegative partners do not understand how it is to live with HIV, they, by being more informed about HIV than before forming a couple, do not recourse to marginalizing or abandoning their HIV positive significant other.

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