The proposal of Permanent Heath Care Education in capacitating dental surgeons to care for DST/HIV/Aids patients This is a report on the experience of the "Project for training dental surgeons as facilitators in Permanent Health Care Education in the field of DST/HIV/Aids" developed through a partnership involving the National DST/Aids Program, the Technical Area of Oral Health of the Health Ministry, Public Universities, Municipal and State Secretaries of Health. The objective of the program was to capacitate dental surgeons of the public health network in Brazilian states and cities to provide integral and humanized attention to people living with HIV/Aids. The methodology of choice to train the teams of facilitators was Permanent Health Care Education conducted by means of courses traditional and long distance learning focused on the critical analysis of local and professional realities. Therefore it was an attempt to contruct an educational process geared towards reorienting the hegemonic practice of dentistry, strengthening the processes of care and management and the partnerships, providing sustainability to the actions undertaken in the states and cities.
HIV; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Needs assessment; Dentistry; Public health professional education