Rinaldi C, Piscitello G, Urbinelli A; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1993 Jun 6-11; 9: 809 (abstract no. PO-D03-3546).
GOALS: Helping each woman to elaborate a personal prevention strategy respecting one's health and one's sexual habits and choices in order to avoid both undesired maternity and HIV infection. Eliminating the extraneousness women show towards HIV-AIDS prevention. Giving targetted informations able to reach as many women as possible; using languages and forms of communication which are close to women real life. METHODS: Small-group meetings and exchanges with male and female operators working in sanitary advisory bureaus, in health associations, and in social services; the pamphlet about HIV-AIDS prevention written by IDA group will be a useful instrument in these meetings. ISSUES DEALT WITH: Risk-perception Superimposition between contraceptive choices and HIV-AIDS prevention. CONCLUSIONS: Necessity to interweave HIV-AIDS prevention and contraceptive choices respecting women self-decision in both fields; necessity of underlining the relationship between contraception and health; necessity to pay the greatest attention to the forms through which women express their sexuality.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Contraception
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health
- Health Education
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Health Planning
- Humans
- Male
- Sexual Behavior
- education
- organization & administration
Other ID:
UI: 102206849
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