[Prevention of AIDS: experience with adolescents from a state elementary school in Porto Allegre].

This article refers to a participating experience in AIDS prevention with teenagers from 5th to 8th grade of a state elementary school, through workshops. This working method uses participating technics to allow relaxation, discussion and theme reflection by the group. The results obtained with this work of information and health education indicate the possibility of stimulating preventive acting development through reflection on the health-disease process, which involves HIV virus infection and comprehension of the disease extension and gravity for public health.