De Lima RM, Camara CL, Costa RB; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12; 10: 423 (abstract no. PD0302).
Grupo Pela VIDDA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
OBJECTIVE: Analysis of the social value of Grupo Pela VIDDA (GPV)--a non-governmental organization, whose participants are mainly people living with HIV/AIDS--which, after expanding its initial proposal, became an entity with a range of activities concerning different areas. METHODS: Follow-up of GPV's activities, services, projects and external representations, which characterize the group as a collective subject. Observation of social responses resulting from GPV's multiple actions. Interpretation of individual and collective impacts, both internal and external to GPV. RESULTS: GPV's legal service has initiated more than 400 legal actions. The AIDS hotline mobilizes approximately 20 weekly volunteers; it is a national reference in terms of information and inquiry on the subject. Group meetings work as an integration vehicle, stimulating individual mechanisms to fight the disease. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Presently, GPV is countrywide recognized in the context of the struggle against AIDS and for the defense of human rights. Under the actual profile, people living with HIV/AIDS carry on most of the GPV activities. Such flame stimulates other people, with or without AIDS, to a stronger reaction against social and political problems caused by the epidemic.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Disease Outbreaks
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Human Rights
- Humans
- Organizations
- Research
Other ID:
UI: 102209495
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