14th International AIDS Conference Barcelona, Spain - July 7-12, 2002

Int Conf AIDS 2002 Jul 7-12; 14:(abstract no.. D11134)

Debacco MS, Teixeira AM, Bacelo J, Junior AM
Secretaria Municipal de Saude, Pelotas, Brazil

ISSUES: Coll into question, based on the Injury Reduction Programs, the dynamics of the subject that is a drug or ex- drug addict as injury reducer involved in the policies of intervention of the epidemics of AIDS and other blood transmitted diseases.

DESCRIPTION: this Program was implemented in October 2001 in two districts in the outskirts of the city of Pelotas, reaching an average of 60.000 people, iwth the support of the State Health Department and the Ministry of Health. In October, November and December 1855 syringes were distributed and 608 (32%) of them were collected. Such activity has been developed by six injury reducing agents who are paid monthly and that work an average of 20 weekly hours. Part of this time is used in the field work in an individualized approach with the population of the selected places. The program already has 52 Project Friends - places where the effective exchanging of syringes can be done.

ISSUES: To reduce injury does not mean to suppress an state, but to alter it. To learn how to refuse, not to share, recover the gesture of the body that carried off the subject that takes care of himself potentializes and captures another way of living. The UDI tends to establish, by the exchanging of the syringe, other ways of seeing, speaking, ot making someone see, speak, govern and govern himself, externalizing inner and outer states and intentions that constitute and produce subjectivity. RECOMMENDATION: It is noticed through the Injury Reduction Program the possibility of knowing different ways of living in which the processes of subjectivity show the routine updating ways, the inventive ways of self-care, the expression and creation ways, the reduction of possible injuries that are being noticed and the architecture of the bodies of those who allow themselves to get touched by a practice that involves the self-care.

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