This article has the objective to present the investigations concerning the current practice of anti-aids activism among the technicians linked to the Group of Support to Life (GSL), in Campina Grande, Paraiba State - Brazil. Other objectives of the investigation were: to identify the conceptions of anti-aids activism for technicians and to know how they evaluate those practices accomplished by the Non-Governmental Organization. The favoring or not on the creation of new strategies of activism, through the operation of GSL, was also investigated. The research started with visits to the institution, in the second semester of 2004, in the city of Campina Grande, where semi-structured interviews were accomplished with six volunteer technicians of the referred entity. Preliminary results indicate that the new form of activism is consubstantiated in the execution of projects and in the insertion of NOG in the social representation councils, but the street mobilization needs to be rescued.
Non-governamental organizations; activism; contemporaneity