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0109/2021 - Experiences and perceptions on sexuality, risk and STI/HIV prevention campaigns by university students. Designing a digital intervention.
Experiencias y percepciones sobre sexualidad, riesgo y campañas de prevención de ITS/VIH por estudiantes universitarios. Diseñando una intervención digital.

Author:

• Giuliano Duarte-Anselmi - Anselmi, G. D. - <giuliano.duarte@usach.cl>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9724-0796

Co-author(s):

• Eduardo Leiva-Pinto - Pinto, E. L. - <eduardo.leiva.p@usach.cl>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9026-0345
• Jairo Vanegas-López - López, J. V. - <Jairo.vanegas.l@usach.cl>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5281-483X
• Jeffrey Thomas-Lange - Lange, J. T. - <thomaslange.j@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-7858


Abstract:

We report on the qualitative phase of a research that seeks to design a digital intervention for the prevention of STI / HIV and promotion of sexual health in university students. From focus groups, the experience and perception that university students have on sexuality, risk and prevention campaigns were addressed. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with key informants. The results reveal that sex education is scarce, reduced to the biological, loaded with prejudices and gender biases, limiting the handling of information by the student population. Wavering prevention strategies are evident, failing to motivate or offer opportunities for making conscious and autonomous decisions in sexual health. The STI / HIV campaigns were evaluated as not very inclusive, remote and based on fear. Interventions in sexual health have failed to weigh experiential aspects of youth sexuality, based on models of ideal and stereotyped behavior, discarding first-person narratives and their rich complexity. It is imperative to innovate in the prevention of STIs / HIV, formulating interventions based on an integrative, multidisciplinary and situated design that values the theory and experience of the target populations.

Keywords:

STI, HIV, sexuality, young people, prevention.

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Anselmi, G. D., Pinto, E. L., López, J. V., Lange, J. T.. Experiences and perceptions on sexuality, risk and STI/HIV prevention campaigns by university students. Designing a digital intervention.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Mar). [Citado em 28/01/2026]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/experiences-and-perceptions-on-sexuality-risk-and-stihiv-prevention-campaigns-by-university-students-designing-a-digital-intervention/18008



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