Sexualidade entre jovens das comunidades anfitriãs de turismo: desafios para a prevenção das DST/HIV e o Programa Saúde da Família / Sexuality among the youth of the host communities for tourism: challenges to the STI(s)/HIV prevention and the Family Health Program

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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The touristic activity in certain Brazilian regions intensifies seasonal population flows and it generates socioenvironmental impacts, among which problems to the sexual and reproductive health of the host communities inhabitants. This demands scheduled responses by the local health systems. One of the strategies of prevention and promotion of sexual health is the accretion of more prevention actions into the Programa Saúde da Família PSF [Family Health Program]. This strategy has grown in the discussions on this theme. According to its guidelines, which foresee the integration between prevention actions, treatment and rehabilitation, and also according to the epidemiologic and sociocultural reality. The objectives of the study were: (1) describe the social and programmatic vulnerability to the STDs and AIDS, unplanned pregnancies and to the sexual market, among young residents of the host communities for tourism on the southern coast of the Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil; (2) understand how the professionals of the primary health care/PSF of those same places, recognize the impacts of the tourism context on the health of the Caiçara youth segment and what are the prevention actions that they develop. The qualitative design study used the ethnographic observation and semi structured in-depth interviews applied to two groups of informants: 12 of the youth of the host community and 11 health professionals ten from the primary health care/PSF and one member of the State Coordination of STDs and AIDS of the State of Rio de Janeiro. RESULTS: Gender, ethnic, the generation, the nationality and the social states were proven to be fundamental to understand the sexual and sociocultural scenery, as well as the sexual-affective interactions among tourists and young local residents. These social markers enhance the vulnerability of the youth to STDs and AIDS, unplanned pregnancies and to the sexual market. The availability to the sexualaffective interactions among youth of the host communities and the tourists is marked by the stereotypes like tourist, gringo(a) [commonly used slang in Brazil for foreigners], caiçara and native and by the interchange of material and symbolic goods which separate people from abroad and people from here. On the other hand, the PSF professionals recognize the specific vulnerability of youth and link it to poverty, to schooling, to the family life, to promiscuity and to the characteristics usually linked to the adolescent phase. Adolescent pregnancy and the presence of multiple sexual partners, known as promiscuity are the better known problems. They value prevention and promote educational actions for the community. This study has identified some obstacles to the quality of the prevention among the youth of the host community as follows: (1) the little comprehension of the sexual scenery and of the gender and social class relations as relevant aspects to the planning of the sexual and 11 reproductive health promotion actions among the Caiçara youth; (2) the approaches use mainly the resource of lectures which emphasize biomedical aspects and orientation as a base for personal values; (3) there are operational difficulties to supply medicine needs and to plan prevention actions on the scope of the primary health care/PSF; treatment and rehabilitation actions are preferred; (4) the communication between the primary health care/PSF (municipal administration) and the State Program for STDs and AIDS of the State of Rio de Janeiro. CONCLUSION: The enhancement of the economy associated with the tourism on the host communities expands the social vulnerability to unprotected sex and to the sexual market, giving an unique character to the gender, ethnicity and social class differences. These dimensions, invisible to the eyes of the PSF professionals, along with the traditional prevention model of lectures and orientation, enlarge the programmatic vulnerability of the youth to the STDs and AIDS, to unplanned pregnancies and to the sexual market. Even though the assortment of attitudes and actions of the professionals has proven to be insufficient to manage psychosocial technologies which are part of the sociocultural dimension of sexuality, it is strongly recommended to invest on the proper education of the PSF professionals to expand their prevention actions.

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sexuality family health jovens sexualidade health saúde da família turismo youth doenças venereas serviços de saúde pública aids public health services veneral diseases acquired immunodeficiency syndrome saúde tourism

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