A global player in the politics of Aids<\/a>: 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.<\/p>\n HIV\/AIDS, its stigma and history<\/a>\u00a0Our science editors Andr\u00e9 Felipe C\u00e2ndido da Silva and Marcos Cueto discuss the HIV prevention policy adopted in Brazil since December 2017: the pre-exposure prophylaxis.<\/p>\n AIDS Between Science and Politics<\/a>\u00a0Peter Piot, founding executive director of UNAIDS, recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today.<\/p>\n Successes and setbacks in the fight against Aids<\/a>\u00a0The medical anthropologist Richard Parker, professor at Columbia University, examines the social and political aspects of HIV\/AIDS in Latin America.<\/p>\n Faces of an Aids-free generation<\/a>\u00a0This UNAIDS book tells the stories of 12 African mothers living with HIV and their children born free of the virus.<\/p>\n Aids, politics and culture<\/a>\u00a0The online exhibition \u201cSurviving and Thriving\u201d tells the story of Aids from its first cases in the US, in the 80\u2019s. It also shows personal stories and governmental campaigns. Available at the US National Library of Medicine website.<\/p>\n GOIS, Jo\u00e3o B\u00f4sco Hora.\u00a0Reabrindo a ‘caixa-preta’: rupturas e continuidades no discurso sobre Aids nos Estados Unidos (1987-98).\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>\u00a02002, vol.9, n.3 , pp.515-533. Available from: <http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.
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<\/a>Action on AIDS gallery, Against the Odds; Making a Difference in Global Health, Exhibition at the National Library of Medicine, 2008-2010. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine<\/p><\/div>\n
In recent years there has been a resurgence of museum exhibitions on the history of HIV and AIDS. In the article\u00a0\u00a0Public health heritage and policy: HIV and AIDS in museums and archives<\/a>,\u00a0exhibition curator and historian of medicine\u00a0Manon S. Parry, Professor\u00a0at the VU-University, Amsterdam, calls\u00a0\u00a0into question some of the conventions of archiving and interpreting the history of the pandemic.<\/p>\n In the\u00a0article,\u00a0published in the dossier\u00a0The meaning(s) of global public health history<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Perry\u00a0 highlights some significant problems in the management of the material culture of the pandemic: Firstly, collections policies place limits on the kinds of objects that qualify for museum accession, and many are inadequate for addressing HIV and AIDS. Secondly, medical heritage is vulnerable if it is not considered valuable for contemporary practice.\u00a0Thirdly, museums replicate the silences and erasures of the societies they document, with groups on the margins, such as intravenous drug users and sex workers, underrepresented.<\/p>\n