August 2019
The article AIDS, Antiretrovirals, Brazil and the International Politics of Global Health, 1996–2008, by Marcos Cueto, science editor of HCSM, and Gabriel Lopes, postdoctoral researcher at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), was recently published in the journal Social History of Medicine (Oxford University Press).
The article explores the country’s participation in the global politics of AIDS in the mid 1990s.
It argues that the country became a player in the global politics of Aids through its participation in debates on whether antiretroviral drugs were commodities or public goods.
According to Cueto and Lopes Brazilian actors not only challenged powerful pharmaceutical companies, but the assumption that international health policies were solely defined in developed countries.
For more information contact Marcos Cueto at marcos.cueto@fiocruz.br
About Aids in HCSM:
Bidegain, Evangelina Anahí. Una etnografía sobre personas viviendo con sida, calidad de la atención y construcción de la enfermedad. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2019, vol.26, no.2.
Silva, André Felipe Cândido da and Cueto, Marcos. HIV/AIDS, its stigma and history. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2018, vol.25, no.2.
Spesny, Sara Leon. Les politiques du corps: l’approche critique de Didier Fassin à l’épidemie du Sida en Afrique du Sud. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2014, vol.21, no.4.
Torres-Ruiz, Antonio. Nuevos retos y oportunidades en un mundo globalizado: análisis político de la respuesta al VIH/Sida en México. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2006, vol.13, no.3.
Löwy, Ilana. Les métaphores de l’immunologie: guerre et paix. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 1996, vol.3, no.1.
Cueto, Marcos. El rastro del SIDA en el Perú. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2002, vol.9.
AIDS Between Science and Politics – Peter Piot, founding executive director of UNAIDS, recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today.
Successes and setbacks in the fight against Aids – The medical anthropologist Richard Parker, professor at Columbia University, examines the social and political aspects of HIV/AIDS in Latin America.
Aids, politics and culture – The online exhibition “Surviving and Thriving” tells the story of Aids from its first cases in the US, in the 80’s. It also shows personal stories and governmental campaigns. Available at the US National Library of Medicine website.
Public health campaigns: getting the message across – This book edited in 2009 by the World Health Organization brings together posters from public health campaigns.
