PERCEPCIÓN DEL RIESGO DE COVID-19 EN INDÍGENAS NAHUAS EMBARAZADAS EN MÉXICO.

Framework: The pregnancy has recognized as a condition that increases susceptibility to becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 and developing COVID 19 in its most severe form, however little has been studied about the perception of risk regarding the disease in pregnant women. Research question/Goals: to analyze, from the perspective of anthropology and sociology of risk, the perception of the risk of COVID-19 during pregnancy in indigenous women. A qualitativeethnographic study was carried out in a Nahua indigenous community in north-central Mexico, in which ten women who lived through the experience of a pregnancy during the second and third wave of the pandemic were interviewed. The transcribed interviews were subjected to analysis from the Grounded Theory of Strauss and Corbin and triangulated with the observation records recorded in the field diary. Results: It was identified that the perception of risk becomes more complex depending on the social imaginaries that people have regarding reproduction and gender, which mainly contributes a construction of biological vulnerability, which is based on four axes: romanticization/demand of reproduction, the stigma built on the elderly around the disease, the real and symbolic distance from health services, and the invisibility of the risks that derive from gender demands within the domestic space. Final considerations: It is urgent to maintream intersectional perspective in health policies and strategies for risk containment, inequalities associated with ethnicity and gender are conditions that must be taken into account in risk communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]