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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
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).