As estratégias pedagógicas de educação e saúde desenvolvidas pelas OSC para conter a disseminação das IST/HIV/AIDS entre os jovens em contexto de maior vulnerabilidade epidemiológica

Abstract

This Master’s thesis central points are the pedagogical strategies used in education and health projects developed by civil society organizations to contain the spread of STIs/HIV/AIDS among young people part of key and priority populations of the epidemic. Thus, the general objective is to analyze the pedagogical strategies of projects carried out by civil society organizations in relation to health and education in order to educate young people coming from key and priority populations on combined prevention strategies and risk management to STIs/HIV/AIDS as to reduce the prevalence and epidemiological incidence in this segment. In contemplation of this investigation’s specific objectives, this inquiry also focused on the pedagogical strategies developed by community-based civil society organizations to educate young people on how to contain the spread of STIs/HIV/AIDS in key and priority populations of the epidemic. Furthermore, the projects’ similarities and differences are compared according to the criteria and strategies used in order to contemplate the diversity of the attended population. For this purpose, this project used desk research, bulletins, newspaper materials, articles and books as well as data from narrative reports produced by CSOs financed by Fundo Positivo. The pedagogical strategies were based on a peer education approach and data was analyzed according to the teachings of Apple (2003), Loutzenheiser and Moore (2011) and Torres Santomé (2011, 2013). As a result, it was possible to democratize access to quality information on combined STIs/HIV/AIDS prevention strategies through the development of theater workshops, traffic light dynamics, written letters, hip hop, poetry, graffiti, hand-to-hand approach methodologies, safer sex workshops, risk management and thanks to the partnership established with Brazilian public health and education policy makers. Therefore, one was able to create and make available educational materials that dialogue with the reality and specificities of each youth segment. Additionally, one could realize that CSOs, by working in partnership with Brazilian’s public Education and Unified Health System programs helped promote the public health principles of equity, decentralization, regionalization, hierarchization and social participation, promoting what Brazil’s Unified Health System does best