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Reaching truckers in Brazil with non-stigmatizing and effective HIV/STI services

Horizons Program/Population Council - May, 2007
Magda Chinaglia, Sheri A. Lippman, Julie Pulerwitz, Maeve de Mello, Rick Homan, Juan D az

Summary: Research with mobile populations has demonstrated that men in the mobile workforce tend to be exposed to greater HIV risk, and have higher sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV prevalence, than those in less mobile or non-mobile professions. Truck drivers, like other highly mobile groups, spend much of their time away from family and community, which increases the likelihood that they may engage in sexual risk behaviors and limits their access to stable health services or sustained exposure to public health messages.

At the request of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and with support from USAID/Brazil, Population Council conducted an assessment in 2001 in Brazilian border areas to determine which populations were most in need of HIV prevention activities. The research findings in the southern region revealed the presence of an extremely mobile, international truck driver community with little to no access to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services.

In response to this need, Horizons/Population Council implemented an operations research study focused on trucker drivers (2002û2005) in the south of Brazil. In collaboration with the administration of the customs stations, municipal and state STI/AIDS programs, and Health Ministries, the investigators sought to examine the feasibility and impact of an HIV prevention project targeted to truckers crossing the southern border of Brazil.

Link: http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/BrazilTruckersReport.pdf


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