Document 2200
 DOCN  M94A2200
 TI    A creative sexuality in service of AIDS prevention.
 DT    9412
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):359 (abstract no. PD0042). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370375
 AB    In 1986, included in the STOP AIDS Campaign activities, we began field
       investigation about the people's resistance to AIDS prevention. Our
       subject people has been transformed in the two extremes of the AIDS
       problem: 1.- General Public. 2.- Terminal sick internees in the Muniz
       General Hospital of Buenos Aires City. Our work hypothesis indicated
       that the resistances to prevention were, and still are not only done to
       wrong messages, but also to deep causes related to the dominant culture
       and to the exercise of an agreeable sexuality. The field experience in
       the search and the practice during the start of the Creative Sexuality
       Workshops for AIDS prevention have shown that our supposals were not
       mistaken. We have been using popular education methodologies and
       community participation, including game activities that can connect the
       participant not only to sexuality but with cultural resistance that
       appear during the agreeable experience of sexuality. The implemented
       modules do not distinguish between population because of genus or sexual
       election, but it recognizes sectors that share some socio-cultural,
       political and geographical characteristics. The results in our
       experience has shown a new kind of approach to AIDS prevention, not only
       because of educational contents and methodologies, but because of an
       ideological perspective facing the AIDS problems. Our experience
       demonstrates that individual approaching is the one to show habit
       changes and to give the real comprehension of why to take desitions in
       that sense, for then, with the help of extended programs being able to
       point to a bigger population groups.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL  Argentina
       Attitude  Culture  Human  *Sex Education  MEETING ABSTRACT

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