Open AccessSocial Work and gay identity: An experience of intervention with groups in a capacity of vulnerability to HIV/STD from the actions of the Programa Compañeros, A.C.
Author(s) -
Miguel Ángel Jácome Santos,
A.C. Programa Compañeros,
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sociales Egresados de la Uacj
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ehquidad
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2386-4915
DOI - 10.15257/ehquidad.2021.0010
Subject(s) - identity (music) , intervention (counseling) , vulnerability (computing) , psychological intervention , face (sociological concept) , psychology , population , social work , social psychology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , peer education , work (physics) , sociology , medicine , nursing , political science , engineering , health education , social science , computer science , computer security , psychiatry , public health , family medicine , law , physics , demography , acoustics , mechanical engineering
The following is a text that briefly introduces the author's experience as a social worker from Programa Compañeros, A.C., a civil society organization in Juarez City, Mexico, which since 1986 has been working on HIV prevention through peer counselors. In this paper, the author tells us how his work was based on professional knowledge (training in Social Work) hand in hand with knowledge derived from the assumption of sexual identity and how these two elements helped to perform good interventions with men of gay identity, therefore, we talk about the different actions taken to prevent HIV transmission in this population by using the Face-to-Face methodologies and the Personalized Cognitive Counseling methodologies applied from the guidance and peer learning. Other aspects such as the Human Rights framework applied in Social Work and some reflections are also addressed.