{"id":13611,"date":"2022-11-30T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=13611"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:23:05","slug":"aids-in-historical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/aids-in-historical-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDS in historical perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 1, 2021, World Aids Day<\/p>\n

According to data from the Pan American Health Organization <\/a>(PAHO\/WHO), the number of new HIV infections in Latin America is estimated to have increased 21%\u00a0between 2010 and 2019, while the number of people dying of AIDS-related death have decreased from 41000 in 2010 to 37 thousand in 2019.<\/p>\n

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An advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Brazilian Health Ministry. 1995. In Wellcome Library<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

To mark the international AIDS day, we have prepared a selection of articles, posts and stories that address different aspects of the history of AIDS, such as AIDS exhibitions in museums, the decline of the AIDS programme in Brazil, the successes and setbacks in the fight against Aids, public health campaigns, the role of social movements, the response of international institutions such as WHO and much more.<\/p>\n

AIDS, Activism, and International Agencies in Brazil, 1987\u20131996<\/a>\u00a0Marcos Cueto, Science editor of HCSM, published with Gabriel Lopes, \u201cBraiding Public Health and Human Rights: AIDS, Activism, and International Agencies in Brazil, 1987\u20131996\u201d Latin American Research Review (2022). This article examines the emergence of a synergy that allowed the early development of what was once considered the best anti-AIDS program in the developing world.<\/p>\n

AIDS in museums and archives<\/a>\u00a0In recent years there has been a resurgence of museum exhibitions on the history of HIV and AIDS. This article by historian of medicine Manon S. Parry highlights some problems of this kind of exhibition.<\/p>\n

The end of AIDS\u2019 exceptionalism in Brazil<\/a>\u00a0The decline of the AIDS Programme in Brazil is the topic of a new article written by Marcos Cueto, Science editor of HCSM, and Gabriel Lopes Post-doctoral researcher at Casa Oswaldo Cruz \/ Fiocruz<\/p>\n

A global player in the politics of Aids<\/a>\u00a0Marcos 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

Una etnograf\u00eda sobre personas viviendo con sida<\/a>\u00a0Evangelina Anah\u00ed Bidegain, del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog\u00eda Social, Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, comenta el libro \u201cCuando la enfermedad se silencia\u201d en el \u00faltimo n\u00famero de HCSM.<\/p>\n

Public health campaigns: getting the message across<\/a>\u00a0This book edited in 2009 by the World Health Organization brings together posters from public health campaigns.<\/p>\n

Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary<\/a>.\u00a0December, 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,\u00a0 returned to Brazil in…<\/p>\n

\u201cEntre 30 y 35% de los diagn\u00f3sticos son muy tard\u00edos\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Una breve entrevista con Massimo Ghidinelli, Jefe de la Unidad de VIH de la Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana de la Salud, sobre el perfil epidemiol\u00f3gico actual del SIDA en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The World Health Organization: A history<\/a>\u00a0The book written by Marcos Cueto (science editor of HCSM), Theodore M. Brown (University of Rochester) and Elizabeth Fee (in memorian, National Library of Medicine) was launched by Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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