‘Street Outreach Teams’: care in the territory at the interface between HIV/AIDS, drugs and Harm Reduction

ABSTRACT This article aims to present the experience of implementing ‘Street Outreach Teams’ in city Recife-PE as a strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention and Harm Reduction (HR) associated with use alcohol, crack, other drugs. Although review history this process reveals tensions, volatility, alternations care models implemented by management, analysis points out importance reaffirming, current context, practices experiences that field, anchored HR defense civil human rights. Street outreach teams have been found help strengthen practice Unified Health System, public health reduce vulnerabilities Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) AIDS The has expanded promotion line people who drugs reduced STI/AIDS such use. However, it seems is necessary invest maintain permanent training processes, addition epidemiological studies research demonstrating results achieved different contexts.