© AIDES
Action de prévention © AIDES Our actions
Aids risks reduction and prevention field programmes undertaken by AIDES follow a community approach. AIDES addresses everyone, particularly those populations which are more vulnerable to the infection, such as prisoners, migrants, homosexuals, drug users, women, deaf persons, prostitutes and young people.
Drug users
Distributing information and prevention materials, providing day care in specific places, intervening in specialised centres, in festive circles, in the streets with prevention workers, setting up syringe exchange programmes, prevention kit distributors, awareness raising days, opening day care centres.
Homosexuals
Distributing information and prevention materials, but above all, intervening in gay circles and cruising areas, in stores and gay evenings. Meeting in different places like festivals, debates, beaches, organising lectures and discussions.
Women
They aim at:
- Making it easier for women to speak out about their own risks. Increasing women’s capacity to protect and treat themselves.
- Informing and raising the awareness of public authorities, health professionals and the general public on the specificities of HIV infection in women.
Through:
- The establishment of workshops on sexual health and self-esteem in women’s associations, social centres, hostels, etc.
- The creation of women specific day care centres.
- HIV-positive women talking groups.
- Promoting female condom.
- Producing and distributing documentation.
- Setting up campaigns directed at the general public.
Prostitutes
In addition to distributing booklets and prevention material, our actions involve day care and listening, as well as lobbying and supporting individual cases.
Young people
Distributing prevention material and information booklets, organising education sessions in secondary and high schools, local clubs and youth associations, etc. Partnerships with such institutions.
