HIV-positive and pregnant women. Difficulties of a coupleExperience in an association in Paris. To support reflection in order to encourage the dynamics of life upset by the anxiety brought about by the announcement of HIV positive testing for a woman who learns that she is pregnant, requires empathy. We realize that the announcement of a fatal prognosis in a more or less distant future, the possible transmission of the virus to the fœtus is taken into account by a woman who is told about the medical protocol to reduce the risks of transmission between mother and child. However, the risk of transmission through sexual intercourse with her partner incites her to contemplate - at least once - the possibility of telling him or to remain silent for fear of being ill-considered and rejected. The point is that, in addition to the feeling that the virus is dangerous, the woman should consider what is important for herself, for her own future, for the future of the couple and of the child to be born.
HIV positive testing; the dangerous character; suffering related to silence; insinuation; lies