摘要：Summary (Access to public health services and HIV prevention: experimentation of participated
planning with adolescents). - The present study reports strategies and approaches found by adolescents
through participated planning aiming at facilitating access of adolescents to HIV prevention services.
Meetings and focus groups were carried out in secondary schools to collect information on attitudes,
perceptions and opinions of adolescents on the way they use health services, the factors which are seen as
obstacles to access, and the best strategies to overcome such obstacles. Analysis of the information gathered
was carried out using content analysis. Among other results gathered it was evident that the social
representation of AIDS was the major factor which underlay the decision of adolescents to avoid these
specific health services and that taking part in participated planning allowed them to feel less distant to this
illness which they initially felt did not concern them
关键词：Key words: focus group, participated planning, adolescent, public health service access, HIV prevention.
