O aprendizado sobre a hanseníase e tuberculose a partir de um projeto de cultura e extensão: relato de experiência

Abstract

This work has the objective to report the experience of scholarship students in the development of activities related to the project of culture and extension Leprosy and Tuberculosis in Primary Attention: organization of databases and active search in an basic health unit in a period of 2010 to 2014. Qualitative and descriptive study whose empirical material is the reflection made by scholarship students. As potentiality points the sensibility of the Basic Health Unit (BHU) team, in especial by the community health agents in the issue of leprosy and tuberculosis; the increase in the active search of cases; waiting room activities implementation; articulation of district level and the BHU team in the concern of responsibility by the cases; undergraduate students’ experiences in home visits, individual care and educative activities to the families with leprosy and tuberculosis. From the experiences, there was the foundation of the Leprosy League in articulation with the Reintegration Movement of People Affected by Leprosy. As the limit of experiments, the non realization of the activities developed by scholarship students by the BHU team and the participation of students from other health courses are considered. The project promotes the learning in the organization of collective activities, leadership and research production.