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 DOCN  M94A1958
 TI    International cooperation between two community based organizations
       (France--Poland) to set up a mobilization model.
 DT    9412
 AU    Defert D; Marty-Lavauzelle A; AIDES Federation Nationale, France.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):412 (abstract no. PD0255). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370617
 AB    OBJECTIVE: AIDES Association -main community-based organisation in
       France- hoped to set up a cooperation project to help mobilize efforts
       to fight AIDS in a country where citizens had no practice of being
       actors in the face of a problem, through solidarity between infected
       people in France and in Poland. METHOD: Send to Poland a delegation made
       up of people living with HIV, of health professionals belonging to the
       Association and of one of the founders of CRISTIANS AND AIDS France, to
       1. find out what were the health, religious, political and press
       structures and individuals mainly involved in the fight against AIDS and
       discuss with them the needs of infected people and the obstacles met in
       the setting up of support structures, 2. meet the representatives of the
       Health Authorities in the country, 3. present the Polish public with the
       findings of the delegation at a Press Conference. RESULTS: two
       representatives of the hardest hit communities came to France to receive
       volunteer training at AIDES Association and a physician was offered a
       month training at the Pasteur Hospital in Paris, a community-based
       Organization Stowarzyszenie Wolontarinszy wobec AIDS BADZ'Z NAMI
       (Association of Volunteers against AIDS BE WITH US) was set up in
       Warsaw, with branches in Dansk and Wroclaw, medium term cooperation
       between AIDES Association (France) and BE WITH US (Poland). CONCLUSION:
       this mission was able to trigger a spirit of mobilization and potentiate
       solidarity and exchanges between people living with HIV, as actors in
       the fight against AIDS in their own country and not just receivers of
       compassionate humanitarian help; it showed that it is possible with
       limited means to set up efficient models of mobilization and cooperation
       between community-based organizations, and that those can be reproduced:
       a similar request was addressed to AIDES Association by the Russian
       Association NOI I VOI (YOU AND US) during a first encounter in Paris.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/*THERAPY
       Christianity  Community Health Services/*ORGANIZATION & ADMIN  France
       Health Services Needs and Demand  Human  Humanism  *International
       Cooperation  Poland  Public Relations  Russia  Social Support  MEETING
       ABSTRACT

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