Background:

currently there are high numbers of young people with human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, which imposes the need to have extensive information, perceive one's own vulnerability and the severity of the risk for infection.

Objective:

to design a proposal for an educational program with popular orientation to modify the risk perception of HIV/AIDS in first-year medical scholarship students, 2021-2022.

Methods:

a development investigation was carried out from January to December 2021. Theoretical, empirical and mathematical methods were applied. The risk perception variable was used, referring to the assessment of HIV/AIDS as a threat to the health of human beings. A previously validated questionnaire was used as instruments.

Results:

the diagnosis carried out taking into account the level of information about HIV/AIDS, perceived vulnerability and severity, demonstrated insufficiencies in both sexes, more frequently in the female; Therefore, an educational program was designed based on popular education, structured in: title, introduction, justification, general objective, methodology, evaluation and guidelines for activities, in order to modify the perception of risk for HIV/AIDS in the sample.

Conclusions:

it was evaluated by a group of specialists, who offered suggestions for its optimization, applied in its final conformation, which was extremely useful for the results of the research and its application in similar contexts.

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