Document 2094
 DOCN  M94A2094
 TI    Training health agents for prevention in urban low socioeconomic status
       women.
 DT    9412
 AU    Ferreira A; Mallol S
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):382 (abstract no. PD0135). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370481
 AB    In Argentina there are no sexual education programmes, preventive
       campaigns have no continuity and are not addressed specifically to the
       different population groups. The increasing number of infected women is
       ignored. Statistics are unreliable, there is underregistration of cases
       and concealment of deaths. Urban women of low socioeconomic status are
       particularly at risk on account of their situation of double
       subordination: by class and gender. They have a low educational level,
       lack of autonomy, large number of STDs, unsafe illegal abortions and
       many multiparous young women are chronically malnourished. There is also
       a low perception of risk, AIDS still being considered as a disease that
       others suffer. This is a population which lives day by day and thus is
       unable to incorporate preventive practices, which do no show immediate
       visible benefits. It is in this context that the training of health
       agents among women who are already working in the community is highly
       necessary. They should be trained to understand the especific health
       problems of these women and to work with participative techniques in:
       sexuality, AIDS and its prevention, creation of risk perception,
       empowerment, enhancing autonomy and self esteem and negotiation
       strategies with men.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Argentina  *Developing Countries  Female
       Gender Identity  *Health Education  Human  HIV Infections/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
       *Poverty  Power (Psychology)  Risk Factors  Sex Education  *Urban
       Population  *Women's Health Services  MEETING ABSTRACT

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