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IntroductionThis study aims to understand the impact of HIV/AIDS related issues on the lives of teenagers and young people, activists from the “National network of teenagers and young people living with HIV/AIDS (RNAJVHA) and the State network of teenagers and young people living with HIV/AIDS of Rio de Janeiro (REAJVHA-RJ)”.MethodsThe methodology used was qualitative research through the narratives of life stories giving voice to young people living with HIV, infected by HIV transmission (horizontal and vertical), which are part of the construction of the Social activism of the 3rd. Phase of the epidemic, post-universal and free access to public health treatments, a successful policy promoted by the Ministry of Health, provided by the Unified Health System (SUS).ResultsWe seek to understand: feelings, motivations, processes of composition and recomposition of identities, health risk management, relationship with social networks, integration of individual history in the broader collective history of the social movement, In an effort to expand opportunities to understand and reflect on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on their lives as teenagers and young people who are part of National Network. To reconstruct the individual historical experiences of their lives and cultures, to identify the moments of these adolescents and young people before and after their entry into youth activism, and to identify the moments of confronting the facts of life as positive HIV serology. We analyse the movements present in the social life and in the existence of teenagers and young people who exercise their role as actors/authors of their own life histories.ConclusionYoung people bring the proposal of an emergence of activism and a public health more integrated in the care and not only in the control of the disease. They want spaces to be heard and to be able to speak about their experiences, understanding that only in this way can they build their own life trajectory in this society in which discrimination and disinformation in HIV/AIDS are preponderant factors.

IntroductionUnderstand the circularity of information and its role or relation with the advancement of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among young people in Brazil; Discuss the role of knowledge in this context of great access and circulation of information, especially among young people.MethodsFrom authors such as Giddens, Casttels, Spink and Goffman, we discuss the circularity of networked knowledge and its implications and influence on the behaviour of young people in vulnerability. From the theoretical discussion, interviews were conducted with 8 HIV positive and seronegative youths with the objective of identifying the sources of information they access about HIV/AIDS, in order to answer the following questions: What knowledge circulates? Where do they come from? Where are they going? How do they circulate? What is the purpose? What is the real impact of the information? What subjects add to it? Subsequently, the interviews were transcribed and submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis.ResultsWe identified three themes addressed by young people when questioned about information and knowledge they have about HIV/AIDS: the exchange of information in network media (internet, smarthphones) as the main way of circulating knowledge; The discourse of risk and its weight in the decisions taken (whether they are to ”risk” or ”protect”); And the idea of vulnerable youth and youth empowered by accessible and available information. Knowing is not enough to prevent, because several other factors interfere in the decision to adopt a protective attitude towards the infection. Information can also contribute to the inverse effect; by the sense of empowerment it gives the youth.ConclusionIt is necessary to understand, create and/or identify new ways of ”taking care”, that consider the dynamics of the circularity of knowledge and undo the myth that ”knowing is sufficient to prevent”, from the identification of other factors circulating in the dynamics.