Umbanda healers as effective AIDS educators: case-control study in Brazilian urban slums (favelas).
Trop Doct
; 27 Suppl 1: 60-6, 1997.
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ABSTRACT
During a 12-month period (November 1994-October 1995), Afro-Brazilian Umbanda healers (Pais-de-Santo) taught 126 fellow healers from 51 Umbanda centres (terreiros) located in seven overcrowded slums (favelas) (population 104-343) in Brazil's northeast, the biomedical prevention of AIDS, including safe sex practices, avoidance of ritual blood behaviours and sterilization of cutting instruments. A face-to-face educational intervention by healers, marginalized in society yet respected by devotees, which blended traditional healing-its language, codes, symbols and images- and scientific medicine and addressed social injustices and discrimination was utilized in this project supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, National Program in STDs/AIDS. Significant increases (P < 0.001) in AIDS awareness, knowledge about risky HIV behaviour, information about correct condom use, and acceptance of lower-risk, alternative ritual blood practices and decreases (P < 0.001) in prejudicial attitudes related to HIV transmission were found among mobilized healers as compared to 100 untrained controls. Respected Afro-Brazilian Pais-de-Santo can be creative and effective partners in national HIV prevention programmes when they are equipped with biomedical information about AIDS.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention and control; Americas; Attitude; Barrier Methods; Behavior; Brazil; Case Control Studies; Condom; Contraception; Contraceptive Methods; Delivery Of Health Care; Developing Countries; Diseases; Economic Factors; Education; Family Planning; Geographic Factors; Health; Health Education; Health Services; Hiv Infections--prevention and control; Knowledge; Latin America; Low Income Population; Medicine; Medicine, Traditional; Population; Psychological Factors; Research Methodology; Research Report; Risk Reduction Behavior; Slums; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; South America; Spatial Distribution; Studies; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization; Viral Diseases
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Medicinas Tradicionales:
Medicinas_tradicionales_en_america
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Medicina_tradicional_afroamericana
Asunto principal:
Educación en Salud
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Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida
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Agentes Comunitarios de Salud
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Medicina Tradicional
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
País/Región como asunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Trop Doct
Año:
1997
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos