AEGiS-14IAC: Reflecting on the existing partnership between the volunteers' corps -- VOSEM - and the health staff of the specialties outpatient clinic of Vila Prudente a unit of Sao Paulo healthy secretary.

14th International AIDS Conference


Barcelona, Spain - July 7-12, 2002

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Reflecting on the existing partnership between the volunteers' corps -- VOSEM - and the health staff of the specialties outpatient clinic of Vila Prudente a unit of Sao Paulo healthy secretary.

Int Conf AIDS 2002 Jul 7-12; 14:(abstract no. F11765)

Arbex LD
Diva Funcia and Arnaldo Norberto Delgado, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Subject: Reflection on partnership among health professionals and civil society, which purports to assimilate the demands of patients and achieve institutional responses enlarged toward the improvement of health and life quality. this experience also looked for the need of implementing activities that may contribute to the attachment to treatment.

DESCRIPTION: The clinic of Vila Prudente is located in a surrounding region of the Sao Paulo city, which has 241.076 inhabitants of whom 12.202 are registered in this health unit and 425 are under treatment with antiretroviral therapy. This work is accomplished among health professionals of the municipal public system and members of the local community, supervised by social workers since 1999, therefore, meeting for the last 3 years material and social demands, namely: food distribution, qualification in handicraft as an alternative income source and work in esthetics and beauty toward the improvement of self-esteem. Lessond learned: This partnership in these 3 years helps the intervention with aids patients and their relatives regarding food quality, sociability and leisure, experience exchanges on how to live with HIV/AIDS and assimilation of responsibility vis-a-vis the treatment. Recommendatons: This partnership shows the possibility of one developing, in a government institution, a work between the society and health professionals, broadening cares to aids patients. We are looking for the broadening of activities that will serve as an embryo for new interventions

Keywords: AEGIS, Voluntary Workers, Ambulatory Care Facilities, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Infections, Health Personnel, Family, HumanKWDaegis,voluntaryworkers,ambulatorycarefacilities,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,hivinfections,healthpersonnel,family,human

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