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 DOCN  M94A1910
 TI    Pela VIDDA: the importance of a multi-action group of people living with
       AIDS.
 DT    9412
 AU    De Lima RM; Camara CL; Costa RB; Grupo Pela VIDDA, Rio de Janeiro,
       Brazil.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):423 (abstract no. PD0302). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370665
 AB    OBJECTIVE: Analysis of the social value of Grupo Pela VIDDA (GPV)--a
       non-governmental organization, whose participants are mainly people
       living with HIV/AIDS--which, after expanding its initial proposal,
       became an entity with a range of activities concerning different areas.
       METHODS: Follow-up of GPV's activities, services, projects and external
       representations, which characterize the group as a collective subject.
       Observation of social responses resulting from GPV's multiple actions.
       Interpretation of individual and collective impacts, both internal and
       external to GPV. RESULTS: GPV's legal service has initiated more than
       400 legal actions. The AIDS hotline mobilizes approximately 20 weekly
       volunteers; it is a national reference in terms of information and
       inquiry on the subject. Group meetings work as an integration vehicle,
       stimulating individual mechanisms to fight the disease. DISCUSSION AND
       CONCLUSIONS: Presently, GPV is countrywide recognized in the context of
       the struggle against AIDS and for the defense of human rights. Under the
       actual profile, people living with HIV/AIDS carry on most of the GPV
       activities. Such flame stimulates other people, with or without AIDS, to
       a stronger reaction against social and political problems caused by the
       epidemic.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*REHABILITATION  Brazil  Hotlines
       Human  HIV Infections/*REHABILITATION  Jurisprudence  *Organizations,
       Nonprofit  *Self-Help Groups  Voluntary Workers  MEETING ABSTRACT

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