Chicre da Costa Nicolau DM, Nicolau B, Galdino de Queiroz I, Nicolau E; International Conference on AIDS.

Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. WePeD6332.

grupo Pela Vidda, Niteroi, Brazil

BACKGROUND: There is a great resistence in developing projects that involve themes linked to sexuality, creates a barrier to develop acts of prevention regarding the STD/AIDS in the Municipal Network of Education (MNE) in Niteroi (city Rio de Janeiro state), obliging a initiative with the civil society organized 'grupo Pela Vidda Niteroi' (NGO) to guarantee the accomplishment of this type of activity together with the school community. METHODS: To Implement programs preventing the STD/AIDS in the Municipal Network of Education in Niteroi. Meetings gathering the concerned ones with the superintendents of the MNE, schools principals and educational cordinators in order to get the attention to the vulneralbility of the students and the relevance of the STD/AIDS prevention in schools. Organizing workshops to inform teachers and pupil's parents; creating interactive classes with the students, stimulating the students to take actions towards the prevention (becoming multipliers). RESULTS: Thanks to our efforts, a law was passed obliging the inclusion of the subject "Prevention to the STD/AIDS" in schools' curriculum. After that point, we started to gain many teachers adhesion to our work. Today, we have a 'Permanent Network' composed of 29 multiplier teachers distributed in 23 schools of 16 Niteroi's neighborhood (Niteroi is the second city in number of AIDS cases in Rio de Janeiro state, and its population is close to a million people) district. After a reseach in one school, they came out with amazing numbers. We managed to decrease the number of early teenage pregnancy in 80% in that school. This program benefits about 6.800 pupils and 16 communities annually. CONCLUSIONS: The results obtained through our work prove that succreding depends on the sensibility of the headquaters inside the school administration and also the systematization of those acts force changes with the adolecents behave making them less vunerable to the STD/AIDS.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Adolescent
• Curriculum
• Educational Status
• Female
• Humans
• Legislation
• Population
• Pregnancy
• Residence Characteristics
• Schools
• Sexual Behavior
• Students
• education
• methods
• organization & administration
• therapy

Other ID:

• GWAIDS0017089

UI: 102254587

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