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DOCN M94A1920
TI Contextual AIDS-awareness work in south-west India.
DT 9412
AU Schumann U; Centre for Development Initiative, New Delhi, India.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):421 (abstract no. PD0291). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370655
AB OBJECTIVES: AIDS-awareness needs introduction on a broad scale in
south-western India where about 80% of Kerala's households in-/directly
depend on external income raised in labor migration. Local variations of
health cultural attitudes and socio-economic conditions demand built-in
evaluation into educational approaches to allow micro adjustments to the
local context. METHODS: Increased dynamics of migration resulted in
split of families but maintenance of roots and home-visits. Working
partners are released into social isolation and cosmopolitan
promiscuity. Risk of HIV-infection and heterosexually spread of the
virus in rural Kerala is high. Within a framework of health education on
symptomatology and prevention of predominant diseases, the peoples
health culture is being explored and monitored. On a basis of ongoing
evaluations, IEC-materials on HIV-epidemic are developed and
disseminated. RESULTS: The method allows adaptive measures in IEC in
correlation to attitudes and behaviours rooted in local health culture.
It can be utilised as supportive mechanism for behavioural changes in
respect to unsafe promiscuity. Emphasis on socio-economic constraints
such as migration helps establish acceptance against social stigma
towards the carriers of HIV. Computerized evaluation documents
utilisation patterns for health service and improves public health
planning. CONCLUSIONS: This scientific basis within public health
approaches is a tool for popularisation of social-/scientific
instruments. It dissolves culturally conditioned denial mechanisms or
outcasting sanctions of the target population and facilitates acceptance
and coping of the HIV/AIDS-epidemic.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION &
CONTROL/TRANSMISSION Female Human HIV
Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/TRANSMISSION HIV
Seropositivity India/EPIDEMIOLOGY Male Prejudice Risk Factors Rural
Population Sex Behavior *Sex Education MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).