The objectives of this qualitative study were to describe the adhering process through analyzing the daily lives of scholars and the process of hiding one's HIV/Aids, as well as to identify situations they have lived which may influence their adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy. The data was collected through structured interviews given to students receiving antiretroviral therapy and accompanied from their HIV diagnosis in a pediatric infectious and parasitic disease clinic. The participants' reports were analyzed according to content analysis and grouped into the following categories: student daily life in the process of adhering to antiretroviral therapy, and silence in constructing a tragic daily life. It is necessary that health care professionals recognize that non-adherence is a phenomenon which should be dealt with together with the child and that it is important to implement strategies capable of offering incentive to adhere to treatment.
Anti-retroviral agents; Pediatric nursing; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Child