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0270/2019 - The brazilian response to the HIV/Aids epidemic amidst the crisis.
A resposta brasileira à epidemia de HIV/Aids em tempos de crise.

Author:

• Rafael Agostini - Agostini, R - <rafael.agostini.vbg@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-9362

Co-author(s):

• Fátima Rocha - Rocha, F - <fatimrocha@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5500-7061
• Eduardo Alves Melo - Melo, E.A - <eduardo.melo@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5881-4849
• Ivia Maksud - MAKSUD, I. - <iviamaksud@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3465-151X


Abstract:

The \"crisis\" is a phenomenon that corresponds to global and local policies with social, political and economic repercussions and is the context for this article that aims to reflect on the Brazilian response to the HIV / AIDS epidemic. We examine dimensions of this phenomenon, such as the review of consensus on austerity policies on the impact on infectious diseases and the construction of \"anti-agendas\" that weakens the narrative of human rights, gender, sexuality and health and make HIV prevention harder. Such a conservative move can be associated with censorship of specialized materials and the recent change of management in the structure of the Ministry of Health, the extinction of hundreds of participatory councils within the federal executive as a reaction to civil society participation, and the new National Policy on drugs that replaces the \"harm reduction\" orientation for one of \"abstinence.\" All these phenomena bring back an old concern, that is, that the \"ideological virus\" will supplant the biological virus, accentuating the picture of stigma and discrimination. In addition to the neoliberal socioeconomic orientation that threatens the Brazilian state, such facts would affect the continuity of institutional responses to HIV / AIDS.

Keywords:

HIV/AIDS; Public Policy; Crisis

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Agostini, R, Rocha, F, Melo, E.A, MAKSUD, I.. The brazilian response to the HIV/Aids epidemic amidst the crisis.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Sep). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-brazilian-response-to-the-hivaids-epidemic-amidst-the-crisis/17344?id=17344



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