What is the aim of our PREVENTION Program?
The prevention program is epidemiological-oriented. As a result, changes in the characteristics of the epidemic generate new proposals and preventative strategies. The prevention area is organized in such a way as to promote activities in health education, mass media information campaigns (radio, TV, magazines and newspapers) and behavioral interventions which aim for substantive changes in the unsafe sexual practices and behaviors of specific populations. Other prevention strategies are the counseling and anonymous testing services offered by our Counseling Center and the free telephone information service -Arabinfo- for information on topics related to the transmission, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and on specialized health services, including, of course, referral to certain free of charge testing centers. 6) What are the Principal strategic lines: Establishing intervention models which permit consideration of the different population groups in terms of their self-concept of