Campos-Lopez PI, Perez-Ordaz E, Amaya-Tapia G, Nunez-Flores A, Andrade-Villanueva J; International Conference on AIDS (15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand).

Int Conf AIDS. 2004 Jul 11-16; 15: abstract no. B11500.

COESIDA Jalisco, Zapopan, Mexico

ISSUES: The specific training events on HIV/AIDS for big groups are generally organized by the capital of the country with federal resources. So, the access and direct participation in the organization are difficult for people living in the interior of the country, even though people living with HIV/AIDS has particularities shared by regions and different among the rest of the country. The challenge was to assemble the health professionals of six states in the occident of Mexico, dedicated to attend people living with HIV/AIDS, in order to unify point of view about Antiretrovirals, pregnancy and HIV, therapy complications, viral coinfection, tuberculosis etc. based in experience of work in the occident region, directed to 400 persons. DESCRIPTION: Integral Attention Commit of Jalisco was constituted by health professional and volunteers workers on HIV/AIDS. This commit share experiences about HIV/AIDS, and define guidelines for the attention of people living with HIV/AIDS in the state. This Commit convened to health professionals and voluntary people working in HIV/AIDS area from 6 States from the Occident of Mexico, to carry out the first regional Congress about Integral Attention in HIV/AIDS, in three days of work with 12 symposiums, 4 plenary, and 360 congress persons. LESSONS LEARNED: The answer to regional assembly confirms the interest of the professionals and voluntary working in HIV/AIDS to participate actively in the construction of an nearby intervention model adequate to the population living with HIV/AIDS that help us to improve its quality and quantity of life and to optimize the available therapeutic resources as result of experience shared. RECOMMENDATIONS: This experience confirms the necessity to generate spaces of exchange and horizontal updating, not centralists, likewise the viability to destine efforts and resources in regional projects.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Female
• HIV Infections
• HIV Seropositivity
• Health Personnel
• Health Resources
• Mexico
• Organizations
• Pregnancy
• Voluntary Workers
• education
• standards

Other ID:

• GWAIDS0032489

UI: 102276703

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