Author:

• Roberta Gondim Oliveira - Oliveira, RG - <robertagondim@ensp.fiocruz.br>

Abstract:

The global health agenda has made significant strides in neglected diseases. In a dynamic movement, throughout the past two decades, it has assumed different priorities, strategies and meanings. Nevertheless important challenges remains in terms of geopolitical, economic, epistemological and social development. The designation and location of neglected diseases in certain territorial spaces and populations is historically related to some dynamics such as those of colonial and capitalistic nature. They create lines through which a sense of continuity of policies and actions rationality operates asymmetries between peoples, institutions and nations. Although it has already positively included the debate on neglected diseases, global agenda of public health has yet to assume and evoke with more theoretical and methodological vigor, the dimension of neglected bodies and populations, strengthening the dialogue between biomedical and political-economic fields. It means reinforcing the critical understanding of the historical vulnerabilities of individuals in the production of knowledge, as well as giving prominence and taking into account their ways of creating their lives in intersect with public health local priorities and practices.

Keywords:

Neglected diseases, Global health, Coloniality; Vulnerability.

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