Document 2054
 DOCN  M94A2054
 TI    Intervention among hotel boys in the Kamathipura and Khetwadi areas of
       Bombay.
 DT    9412
 AU    Nigudkar P; Patil B; Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, India.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):391 (abstract no. PD0171). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370521
 AB    OBJECTIVE: 25% of STD clinic attenders come from the local hotel
       industry. The project proposed to educate them on STD/HIV/AIDS, improve
       STD health care seeking behaviour, and to motivate them to complete STD
       treatment regimes. METHOD: Site visits made to hotels where interactive
       group discussions took place on sex and sexuality and sexual health
       using case studies, role plays and education cards. RESULTS: The hotel
       boys are engaging in high risk behaviour and have a number of
       misconceptions about wet dreams, masturbation and other sexual
       practices. They usually seek treatment from quacks and do not complete
       medication. 500 hotel boys have been reached to date with a reported
       increase in hotel boys attending the STD clinic. DISCUSSION AND
       CONCLUSION: It is important to first discuss issues related to sex and
       sexuality before discussing safer sex practices and health care seeking
       behaviour. During the discussion, the hotel boys opened up and discussed
       frankly sexual misconceptions and problems. The existence of a local STD
       clinic is essential to the continued improved health care seeking
       behaviour.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  *Developing Countries  *Health
       Education  Human  HIV Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  India  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male
       Patient Acceptance of Health Care  Quackery  *Sex Education  *Social
       Environment  MEETING ABSTRACT

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