The data collection was carried out between April and September in 2019 in a specialized service located in the country towns in Rio Grande do Norte state. Ethnography is the theoretical methodological framework to understand the object of study. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand how the experience of living with HIV / AIDS is shaped, thought, lived and signified the experience to live with HIV / AIDS between silence and secrets in the country towns of northeast in Brazil. This research is based on the assumption that,given the specificities of the social dynamic of countryside contexts, the place of origin / habitation, as a social marker of difference, shapes the way these people live with HIV, so they engage in a series of agencies with a view to the protection of identity in a context of a tendency to blur public and private aspects of life. 10ABSTRACT In the face of social processes by stigma and discrimination in relation to HIV / AIDS, people who live with this condition for a long time, find themselves facing a lack of visibility process: they enter in a universe of silence and secrets as a way to protect themselves.

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