AEGiS-10IAC: The importance of counseling on HIV/AIDS in a unit of anonymous testing in Rio de Janeiro.

10th International AIDS Conference


Yokohama, Japan — Aug 7-12, 1994

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The importance of counseling on HIV/AIDS in a unit of anonymous testing in Rio de Janeiro.

Int Conf AIDS 1994 Aug 7-12; 10:390 (abstract no. PD0742)
Rodrigues M, Silva S, Freitas L, Silva C, Lima C, Masson S, Vasconcelos A; CTA-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

OBJECTIVE: The evaluation of the importance of orientation and counseling on HIV/AIDS to achieve a change in behavior.

METHODS: Investigate the records of the charts for daily attendance and prompturaries.

RESULTS: During the period between April 15th 1992 and December 30th 1993 we attended 6,246 persons, an average of 312 clients/month. We delivered 5,315 (85.09%) results 4,523 (85.01%) of which proved negative and 792 (14.59%) positive. The proportion between men and women who undergo the test is of 1.73 to 1. Of the positive results, on the total 609 (76.89%) male and 183 (23.11%) female, we have the proportion of 3; 33 men for each woman. Of the total of negative results delivered 3,352 (74.1%) users applied a change of habits aiming prevention.

CONCLUSION: According to results we point out the importance of orientation and counseling in the unit of anonymous testing on three specific moments out: pre-test group counseling and pos-test individual counseling. This is based on the high percentage (74.1%) of the population who was made conscious of HIV/AIDS prevention.

Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV, Counseling, HIV Infections, HIV Seropositivity, HIV Seroprevalence, Anonymous Testing, HIV-1, HIV Antibodies, HIV Seronegativity, Human, Female, Male, immunology, ICA10KWDaegis,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,hiv,counseling,hivinfections,hivseropositivity,hivseroprevalence,anonymoustesting,hiv-1,hivantibodies,hivseronegativity,human,female,male,immunology,ica10
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