Introduction:

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been reconfigured in the last decade, its tendency to feminization and ruralization is associated with gender violence and racial discrimination.

Objective:

To analyze from the framework of nursing care, the impact of intimate partner violence on the lives of indigenous women living with HIV.

Methodology:

A biographical study was carried out, the recovered information was processed through critical discourse analysis.

Results:

The stories recover the experiences of an indigenous woman who contracted HIV, and how the trajectory of the disease has been framed by partner violence and social discrimination.

Conclusions:

Intimate partner violence contributes to the vulnerability of indigenous women in the face of HIV/AIDS; the trajectory of the disease exacerbates the forms of violence experienced by these women.