June 2016
The movie Zika – o filme, by the anthropologist Debora Diniz shows the dark reality of pregnant women expecting babies with microcephaly. The touching documentary follows doctors and mothers struggling together against zika and working for the rehabilitation of the kids.
“Zika is a movie about women,” says Debora. She explains that what we call zika outbreak has a concrete effect on concrete women, specially poor women living in remote areas of the country. For the anthropologist, their stories cry out for an urgent protection of rights, to secure the right to information, family planning, motherhood and childhood.
Read the article of Debora Diniz published in HCS-Manguinhos:
Diniz, Debora and Brito, Luciana “Eu não sou presa de juízo, não”: Zefinha, a louca perigosa mais antiga do Brasil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2016, vol.23, no.1, p.113-130. ISSN 0104-5970
