June 2018
In the editor’s note of HCS-Manguinho’s current issue (vol.25 no.2 Apr./June 2018), our science editors André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto discuss the HIV prevention policy adopted in Brazil since December 2017: the pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, available at 36 treatment centers in 11 states.
Source: https://www.hiv.gov/
They argue that while this advance certainly calls for celebration, this new prevention strategy have, however, corroborated the persistence of stigmatizing metaphors about HIV and AIDS that have endured since the disease’s early days. Read full letter
Silva, André Felipe Cândido da and Cueto, Marcos.HIV/AIDS, its stigma and history. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2018, vol.25, no.2.
Current issue online! – Readers will find articles that explore different aspects of disease: stigmatization, medical discourse and the role of media.
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.
Faces of an Aids-free generation – This UNAIDS book tells the stories of 12 African mothers living with HIV and their children born free of the virus.
“Thinking historically might be a good idea” – In this interview to our blog the Professor of History at the University of Virginia Christian McMillen talks about the main challenges of tuberculosis control in developing countries today.
Activism in the history of medicine – An interview with Dr Susan M. Reverby, Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.
