Adolescent and sexual vulnerability in leisure-party situations

Abstract

This article reports results and conclusions obtained in a research carried out in 2006, during the carnival in
Guarujá/SP (MC BRITTON; FIGUEIREDO, 2006), which sought to assess sexual behavior and, consequently, the situation
of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) , including AIDS and unplanned pregnancy among young people and
adolescents in leisure and party situations. It also summarizes, at the end, the initiative of the Municipal Health
Department of Salvador (CUNHA, 2007) to make condoms available and also emergency contraception (morning-after pill),
in the same festive period in Bahia, offering alternatives for intervention to similar vulnerabilities those noted
in the survey.