RESUMO
PIP: The Groupe de Lutte Anti-SIDA (GLAS) (Group in Struggle Against AIDS) is an HIV prevention program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which taught HIV prevention to almost 20,000 mainly male workers aged 15-49 years. Before ending in 1996, GLAS offered one, hour-long session introducing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and how to prevent them; instruction on how to use condoms; an open-ended discussion hour in which workers who had attended the first 2 sessions could ask questions about beliefs and rumors related to HIV/AIDS and STDs; and intensive psychological support groups using the transactional analysis (TA) educational approach to personal growth and change. The TA approach focuses upon teaching adults how to abandon self-defeating strategies, typically learned during childhood, and how to develop attitudes for managing life's problems. It promotes clear, direct communication. Participation in GLAS's program helped men understand the benefits of adopting HIV/STD risk reduction behavior.^ieng