Educative intervention for increasing fertile-aged women's knowledge on HIV/AIDS
Keywords:
HIV, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.Abstract
Introduction: HIV/AIDS is increasingly affecting women due to their biological and social vulnerability; prevention is the only existing resource against that scourge.Objective: to increase women's knowledge on aspects of HIV/AIDS.
Material and methods: a quasi experimental intervention study without a comparison group was carried out of fertile-aged women from the community doctor's office # 192, which belongs to Luis Augusto Turcios Lima University (outpatient) Clinic, from January to September 2010. This research was carried out in three stages: the first aimed at obtaining, by anonymous survey, a diagnosis of women's knowledge on the topic; the second corresponded to developing educative actions in the community; and the third, to assessing the educative intervention applied.
Results: fertile-aged women's knowledge was insufficient irrespective of their school level. Educative actions permitted to train health promoters for developing activities with other women and the community residents in general.
Conclusions: the educative intervention applied proved effective in increasing fertile-aged women's knowledge on HIV/AIDS.
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