Resposta à aids no Brasil: contribuições dos movimentos sociais e da reforma sanitária Response to AIDS in Brazil: contributions of social movements and the sanitary reform

• Main Authors: Alexandre Grangeiro, Lindinalva Laurindo da Silva, Paulo Roberto Teixeira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida; artigo histórico; política de saúde; organizações não governamentais; reforma dos serviços de saúde; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; historical article; health policy; non-governmental organizations; health care reform; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b012da2dcee94fd9ba97b48e150519d6

This paper briefly outlines how the political scenario and the mobilization of different actors have contributed to the construction of a public health policy in response to the AIDS epidemics in Brazil. Three factors are presented and discussed: the political context of the 1980s, characterized by redemocratization, growth of social movements, and consolidation of the Brazilian health care reform; the socio-cultural context of the 1970s and 1980s, characterized by achievement of individual freedom, which was key to the organization of the AIDS movement; and finally the actions carried out in the international scenario to support the sustainability of the Brazilian domestic policy and the reinforcement of a global response to face the epidemics in lower-middle income economies.