Peer education as strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention among adolescents

• Autor(a) principal: Barreto, Vanessa Pinheiro
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Inácio, Jéssica de Oliveira, Silva, Bárbara Coeli Oliveira da, Aquino, Alana Rodrigues Guimarães de, Marques, Cristiane da Câmara, Feijão, Alexsandra Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/7570
• topic: Adolescent health; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; HIV; Health education; Educação em saúde; Saúde do adolescente; HIV; Síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida; Educação por pares; Adolescente; HIV/Aids

The objective was to describe the implementation of workshops with adolescents using peer education for HIV/AIDS prevention. It was an action research. The subjects were adolescents aged 15-19 years, high school students from two schools of the state education network in Natal/RN. The workshops made it possible to visualize nuances about the vulnerability of the target audience to HIV infection and AIDS. The participants showed little knowledge about the virus and its implications, as they received very frequent inadequate advice from friends and unreliable sources in the media, while conversations about the topic with the family, teachers and health professionals were infrequent. There is a need to provide solid information for these students so that they can share it conveniently with each other, thus becoming multipliers of HIV/AIDS prevention and, consequently, decreasing the contamination rates that affected this population today.