Montesdeoca HM, Rincon Acereda Monica RA; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. D11173.
Spanish Red Cross, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
BACKGROUND.The inmigration phenomenon in the Canary Islands, which constantly increases due to the islands geographical situation, urges a need for programmes concerning knowledge, attitudes and risky practices among these people who arrive in Spain in a very vulnerable state (social, economic, affective and legal vulnerability) which favours HIV / AIDS infection. Objetives. Develop abaut researching proyects abaut, knoledge, attitudes and HIV practises, regarding subsaharian people who arrive in The Canaries in a state of vulnerability. To improve and promote HIV/AIDS epidemiologic surveillance activities among subsaharian inmigrant, focusing on variables such as outcoming country, risky practises and feeling of being at risk.METHODS.This is a descriptive study about knowledge and measures for HIV prevention taken by 178 Subsaharian inmigrants who voluntarily took the HIV test in Las Palmas Red Cross during 2000 and 2001,using a confidential pre-test interview following by the test itself, and after-test interview and diagnosis communication. RESULTS.Apart from the difficulties which a new language presents, we have observed a lack of information concerning routes of HIV transmission and other sexual transmission diseases, besides cultural differences about using condoms and sexuality in general. CONCLUSIONS.There is a permanent need for researching the Subsaharian inmigrants' attitudes and risky practices in order to set up more specific HIV prevention programmes which encompass cultural, social and economic aspects which make these inmigrants so vulnerable to HIV / AIDS.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Attitude
- Condoms
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Health Services Needs and Demand
- Indian Ocean Islands
- Interviews as Topic
- Knowledge
- Sexual Behavior
- Spain
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UI: 102255549
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