Abstract Book Vol. 2 [International Conference on AIDS (14th: 2002: Barcelona, Spain)]

618 Abstracts ThPeF8129-ThPeF8132

XIV International AIDS Conference

of the vulnerable youth are in the hard-to-reach rural areas, marry early, and have
limited access to health, education and social services.
Description: Reorientation of existing interventions at school-based, communitybased, and mass media programs
Outreach to out-of-school youth engaged in livelihood and/or recreation activities;
integrating SRH education into church activities, including links with services;
Creation of attractive places/opportunities designing health/social services that
are friendly to out-of-school youth; using sports, livelihood opportunities and credit
as an entry point.
Reconstruction of traditional mechanisms of education working with traditional
initiation rites counselors
Support of innovative approaches developed through local initiatives and documenting them
Lessons learned: Multi-lingual and multi-ethnic groups pose a real challenge
combined with youth multiple levels of vulnerability, illiteracy, poverty, migration to
transport corridors, broken families, violence, and substance abuse.
Girls are harder to reach than boys because they are not expected to be away
from the home.
The infrastructure of youth government and youth associations need to be
strengthened
Space for outreach activities is very limited and many do not have electricitymaking activities difficult.
Recommendations: Maximize opportunities for community peer to interact with
school-based activists as a way of sharing skills and as a mutual support system.
Parents and community can play a significant role in the health development of
adolescents
Increase technical financial support for building capacity of Youth Associations
and NGOs.
Presenting author: Rita Badiani, Av.Julius Nyerere, 612-1st floor-right, Maputo,
Mozambique, Mozambique, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-mail:
[email protected]
ThPeF8129I Dissemination of HIV/AIDS information to disabled
pupils/students in Kenya
C.A. LenVa, R.L. Lenya, P.A. Aduwa, C.O. Kaduwa. TAPWAK, Nairobi, Kenya
Issue: To investigate the extent to which HIV/AIDS information and safe sex education reach disabled persons in particular pupils/students. To establish techniques or methods that can make HIV/AIDS information and sex education dissemination among disable pupils/students effective. To find out whether some
disabled girls drop out of school due to pregnancies and therefore to establish
the fact that disabled pupils/students practices pre-marital sex.
Description: Between September 1999 and August 2000 TAPWAK conducted
HIV intervention among pupils/students in several schools and investigated the
following:
1. The magnitude of pregnancy among disabled female students/pupils
2. The assimilation capacity between pupils/students with disabilities and those
without disabilities in order to establish the difference in capacity
3. Different levels of assimilation among the pupils/students with variable disabilities (15 blind, 10 deaf & 9 mentally retarded were examined).
4. The experience of the teachers with skills in special education over the assimilation capacity among pupils with disabilities as compared to those without
disabilities.
Lessons learnt: About 5% disabled female pupils/students are expelled from
school because of pregnancy. Assimilation capacity among the disabled is lower
due to lack of some of the senses and thus have little information about HIV/AIDS
and safe sex. Regarding the different levels of assimilation among the blind, the
deaf and mentally retarded pupils, there is a great variation e.g a test on information message transmitted on the television. Moreover, teachers with skills in
special education revealed that in disseminating HIV/AIDS and safe sex information to disabled pupils/students (persons) we must apply special education skills.
Recommendations: In order to adequately and efficiently inform disabled
pupils/students/persons about the dangers of HIV/AIDS & STDs and pregnancy
in tender age, special education skills must be applied.
Presenting author: Caroline Aluoch Lenya, P.o. box 30583, 00100, Nairobi,
Kenya, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-mail: tapwak@kenyaonline.
com
ThPeF8130 Creating awareness, prevention of rampant spread
of hiv infection amongst long distance truck drivers
S.F. Farhat. Secratary General, APSOP Punjab, Pakistan
Issues: Trucks and long vehicles are the main modes of transportation in pakistan. The truck drivers stay away from their homes and families for months due
to the nature of their jobs. The truck drivers, during their journey, make temporary

halts at the truck addas for food, rest repair and service of the vehicle on the move
all the times, while remaining away from families, they fall an easy prey to roadside prostitution. When they fall ill during the journey, roadside quack dispensers
carelessly nature, give them injections generally through used syringes.
Descriptions: APSOP Social Workers take a lead role in this issue providing
knowledge and information to visiting truck drivers, on how HIV/AID is spread,
what are the chances of getting infected, preventive measures, safer way of sex
ual practices, distribution of condoms, printed materials and exhibition of video
films.
Lessons learnt: The concentrated efforts of the Social Workers may check the
female prostitution service reducing the incidence by 30% with the active collaboration of the Police department. Poverty in the rural areas persuades the poor
families to adopt this profession under the cover of big landlords.
Recommendations:
1. There is a strong need to work for the prevention of spread of HIV/AIDS on all
the truck Addas throughout the country all along the National Highway.
2. The awareness created amongst the truck drivers and allied workers about
the dangerous impacts of HIV/AID, safer ways of sexual practices and preventive
measures may result in an extra ordinary positive response.
3. Police Department and District Administration should enlarge the scope of vigilance on Prostitution.
4. Infections through used syringes can be sizably with the sense of danger created in the minds of truck drivers and imposition of strick surveillance by the
Health dept. officials.
Presenting author: SABIR FARHAT, SECRATARY GENERAL, APSOP, POST
BOX NO; 2, BHAWALPUR, PUNJAB-63100, PAKISTAN, Pakistan, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-mail: farhat2 @ mul.paknet.com.pk
ThPeF8131 ITeaching incarcerated male adolescents U.S to be
HIV prevention educators: using urban social
networks to get the message out
N. Aledort, R. Shuler. Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs & Community
Health, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Issues: Urban minority youth are one of the fastest growing incarcerated populations in the U.S., are at elevated risk for HIV/STI infection, and are often hard to
reach with prevention messages via mainstream avenues. Jail inmates are linked
to communities and long-term inmates and as such are uniquely positioned to
become prevention peer educators. When training is provided, incarcerated adolescents can bring prevention messages to their social networks in and out of
jail.
Description: This poster describes a peer education program for incarcerated
males, ages 16-19, conducted in New York City's Rikers Island school. The program uses psycho-educational groupwork, and a curriculum based on principles
of harm reduction. Through comprehensive sexuality education, examination of
ideals of masculinity, critical thinking and communication skills building, participants are taught HIV/STI/hepatitis prevention from a holistic perspective. Once
trained, youth utilize their pre-existing social networks to educate their family,
friends, other inmates, and sexual partners through youth-led one-on-one or small
group conversations.
Lessons Learned: Through consistent and supportive low-threshold training in
a safe environment, hard-to-reach and high-risk youth can be taught to educate
their social networks with culturally appropriate prevention information. Youth report that their conversations and attitudes about sex have changed.
Recommendations: Incarcerated youth can use existing social networks to disseminate HIV prevention messages. Similar programs should be developed and
evaluated.
Presenting author: nina aledort, hunter college center on aids, drugs & community health, 425 e. 25th street, new york, ny 10010, United States, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
ThPeF8132I A decade of experience in the area of STD/AIDS
prevention
M.T.R. Francisco, A.C. Clos, S. Marques, B.S. Caldas Jbnior, R.A.M. Praga. Rio
de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Issues: The research aims to analyze the managerial experience and its social
contribution in the area of STD/AIDS prevention at the University of the State of
Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. The social and Health needs of impoverished populations were attended. Training activities was used to discuss: sexuality, sexual
identity and roles/gender, HIV, AIDS, STD, safe sex, drugs and other aspects of
health promotion.
Description: Qualitative method of research was applied through the analyses of
documents of four projects of STD/AIDS prevention promotes in UERJ in the period from 1992 to 2002. The social administration was developed by means of the
participating management and actions negotiated among their actors - team of
health, university students, government and non government organs and impoverish populations. The preventive actions of STD/AIDS reached about 500.000
people of the world of samba and carnival, 45.000 students of UERJ and approximately 35.000 people of two lacking communities of Rio de Janeiro city (Morro da
Mangueira e Morro dos Macacos), including the formation o multipliers agents.
Lessons learned: The social administration through the participating model eliminates the bureaucratic character due to direct relationship between the manage
ment and the multiple social and political participation, facilitating the resolution
of the problems and the attendance of the social health needs of impoverish populations.
Recommendation: To value the social and health needs of impoverish populations and the formation of multipliers agents that favors the dissemination of
the information and the social actors mobilization. To monitor the indicators of
success of projects - range of population, range of the goals, executed actions,