Rigotti G, Rigotti C, Fernandes C, Mattos E, Gaio DS, Sales MC, Barcellos N, d'Avila S; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. WePeD6405.
Health State Secretariat, Porto Alegre, Brazil
ISSUE: Twenty years of fight against HIV\AIDS epidemic showed us that there is still a long distance between being informed and behavior changing related with infection prevention and management. DESCRIPTION: Between 1999 and 2000, in Rio Grande do Sul, the southest State of Brazil, several workshops directed to physicians, social assistants, biochemistries, psychologists, nurses, dentists, adolescents, teachers, prisoners, indians, communitary health workers, travesties, male sex workers, university students, women and persons living with HIV and AIDS have been developed. In dynamics handling with day to day life worth and life loss compared to loss imposed by HIV and AIDS to human being, between 10 working groups composed by 299 persons, the most important values nominated were: values relates to family (45,5%), life and health (19,9%), positive feelings like love, friendship, faith, peace (15,05%), work (13,2%), material proprieties (5,2%), freedom (1,1%) and others (1%). This values were similar in each of the target population.. LESSONS LEARNED: It has been demonstrated that the most important values were related to family, life, health, positive feelings and work. It was demonstrated that the values were almost the same despite the cultural, economic, social, gender and ethnic diversity. RECOMMENDATIONS: In all the educative activities related to HIV and AIDS prevention that aim interventions directed to handle with individual and social vulnerability it is indispensable to consider the values nominated as the way to reach the individual commitment with the acquired knowledge and the individual behavioral change.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Adolescent
- Brazil
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Humans
- Infection
- Knowledge
- Male
- Research
- education
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UI: 102256291
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