Social protagonism: meetings between nursing graduates of Salvador and activists living with HIV

Abstract

Objective: This paper aims to report the experience of nursing students during meetings with people who participate in an organized social movement and live with HIV. Method: The idea of "‹"‹integrating the meetings promoted by the group arose from the need to approach people who work in the Bahian scenario, proposing discussions about the prevention, diagnosis and coping with the HIV epidemic, objects of the extension project Bonde Universitário: youth participation in prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections, of which the students are a part. Result: The meetings took place in February 2018 to March 2019, weekly, in a reference center in the city of Salvador-Bahia. Conclusion: Participation provided the holding of conversations, organization of preventive actions on the streets and educational activities and provided mutual learning, with the development of innovative actions that have the potential to produce effects on the subjects' sexual practices.