Representações sociais de DST/AIDS para adolescentes de uma instituição abrigo com experiência pregressa de vida nas ruas da cidade de Goiânia
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2004
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Introduction: adolescents in street situation likely exposed to STD/AIDS, because the street world is favorable for violence, use and traffic of drugs,
sexual exploration. Objective: in this study we sough to identify and to analyze the social representations of prevention DST/Aids for a group of adolescents
with experience of life in the streets, living in a shelter institution in Goiânia, Brazil. Methods: this inquiry has been based on social
approach of qualitative research in health. The data was collected by in-depth interview with a group of sheltered adolescents of both genres and
diary-field notes from participant observations, and analyzed by thematic modality of the content analysis. Results: as results we identified three thematic
categories: “omnipotence and finite”, prevention and risks, bodies changes, in order to we verify that aids is better known among them than
other STD. In their understanding Aids appears as incurable disease leading to death. Although they know about risks they do not adopt a prevention
behavior. The risk factors are linked to their own powerful beliefs, ignorance, use of inject able drugs or others and difficulties to get condoms makes
that diminishes the risks perceptions threshold and, consequently, also their protection attitudes. The knowledge about sexuality is restricted to the
physical and biological modifications, not knowing exactly what is happening with their body, in each phase of their physical, affective, sexual and
social development. Considering the irregularity that initiates their sexual life time, some limitations to preventing their selves against STD appears.
Conclusion: these results allow us to consider about our responsibility to extending our activities beyond the limits of Academy and thus, contributing
to Public Policy elaboration through accords with governmental and non-governmental organizations, by a community effort to propose effective
projects of interventions for this population, still unknown for great part of the society, inside of its historical context.
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Crianças de rua, Doenças sexualmente transmissíveis, AIDS, Saúde pública, Street children, Sexually transmitted diseases, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Public health
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BORGES, Ida K.; MEDEIROS, Marcelo. Representações sociais de DST/AIDS para adolescentes de uma instituição abrigo com experiência pregressa de vida nas ruas da cidade de Goiânia. DST: jornal brasileiro de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis, Niterói, v. 16, n. 4, p. 43-49, 2004.