Document 2221
 DOCN  M94A2221
 TI    HIV prevention and education in St. Petersburg during the 1994 Goodwill
       games.
 DT    9412
 AU    Chaika N; Saldanha VP; Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):353 (abstract no. PD0019). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370354
 AB    OBJECTIVE: Several publications appeared in Russian mass media on the
       problem of HIV transmission during the next Goodwill Games to be held in
       St. Petersburg in summer 1994. The most radical HIV preventors proposed
       to cancel the Games in order to prevent HIV spread and to protect us
       (Russians) from epidemic. Several AIDS centers offered to organize
       24-hour HIV testing laboratories and AIDS clinics. METHODS: It is
       absolutely clear for us that such measures are very costly and
       unnecessary. Moreover they neglect international experience that the
       successful HIV interventions should stress AIDS awareness and HIV
       education rather than AIDS fearmongering. So the Pasteur Institute
       together with the International AIDS Project have proposed and begun to
       realize very different plan of action. RESULTS: Our programme focuses on
       promoting AIDS awareness through public information and education as
       well as promoting of safe sex. Different materials on HIV/AIDS and safe
       sex will be produced and distributed before and during the games.
       Special attention will be paid to condoms. CONCLUSION: The realization
       of our programme will help to promote not HIV but AIDS awareness during
       the 1994 Games.
 DE    *Health Education  Human  HIV Infections/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  Russia  Sports  MEETING ABSTRACT

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