AEGiS-15IAC: The use of the Internet for the prevention of the VIH in the infantile population: New bilingual vestibule Mexican (English-Spanish).

15th International AIDS Conference

Bangkok, Thailand - July 11-16, 2004

The use of the Internet for the prevention of the VIH in the infantile population: New bilingual vestibule Mexican (English-Spanish).

Int Conf AIDS 2004 Jul 11-16; 15:(abstract no. C10107)

Pascual JJ, Luna JM, Salazar M, Salazar SR, Valdes M, Quintero P, Zamudio I, Garcia AY, Montano M, Rodriguez A
CAPPSIDA A.C., Mwxico, Mexico

ISSUES: The use of Internet has allowed informing to a greater number of people in a relatively simple way, allowing to optimize material resources as much as human. Within the work in AIDS the presence of pages that inform about a variety of topics about has been growing mundially and in our country, the demand of information has been requiring the specialization to certain sectors of population, from professional levels to adolescents, to mention some, nevertheless a sector that little has been covered is the infantile population.

DESCRIPTION: In CAPPSIDA, we sent the first vestibule designed for children, trying to cover in first passage the population of 6 to 10 years old, properly ages that cover the elementary education in our country. On the other hand, through the use of this technology we looked for that the infantile population of the Mexican province has access to the basic information or more specific questions about the epidemic of HIV, situation that often is not accessible, that because the centralized means of information in the capitals of states or the country, phenomenon that we figth by this strategy.

LESSONS LEARNED: The information of this vestibule has been created by multidisciplinary personnel: psychologists, doctors and nurses, doing it in an interactive way and with an own language for the children, unlike to the already existing thing in the vestibule, all with antecedents in the development of the first vestibule specialized in Organized VIH of the Civil Society in Fight against the HIV/AIDS: http://infantil.vihsida.org.mx http://kids.vihsida.org.mxRecommendation: To share our experiences in the use of this technology will reinforce the work with one of the populations that in a next vulnerable and vulneralizadas future will be being forehead to the VIH/SIDA.

Keywords: AEGIS, Hispanic Americans, Internet, Population, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, European Continental Ancestry Group, HIV Seropositivity, Language, Infant, Humans, Adolescence, Child, prevention & control, utilization, economics, organization & administration, psychology

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