septiembre 2019
En este libro se analiza, a través del sida en Bolivia, las luchas entre organismos globales, empresas farmacéuticas, así como los conflictos de intereses entre corporaciones.
Evangelina Anahí Bidegain, doctoranda del programa de antropología social en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Ciudad de México, comenta el libro en el último número de HCS-Manguinhos (vol vol.26 no.2 Apr./June 2019). Descarga gratis.
Susana Ramíres Hita, Cuando la enfermedad se silencia – Sida y toxicidad en el oriente boliviano, 2016.
El VIH / SIDA en Manguinhos:
HIV/AIDS, its stigma and history – 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.
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.
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.
Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary – December, 2018 Herbert Daniel was a complex figure in social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992. As a medical student, he joined a revolutionary guerrilla organization but was forced to conceal his sexual identity from his comrades, a situation Daniel described as internal exile. He spent much of the 1970s in Europe, returned to Brazil in…
“Entre 30 y 35% de los diagnósticos son muy tardíos” – Una breve entrevista con Massimo Ghidinelli, Jefe de la Unidad de VIH de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, sobre el perfil epidemiológico actual del SIDA en América Latina y el Caribe.
A global player in the politics of Aids – Marcos Cueto, science editor of HCSM, and Gabriel Lopes, postdoctoral researcher at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), explore the Brazilian participation in international debates on whether antiretroviral drugs were commodities or public goods.
