Mulheres negras e não-negras e vulnerabilidade ao HIV/Aids no estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Abstract

The use of race/color as an analytical category provides opportunities to understand better how social interactions, in the context of gender and socioeconomic conditions, create and recreate disadvantages for black women and their exposure to health risks, and also impose limits on the way they use of resources for their healthcare.

Behavioral interventions to promote condom use among women living with HIV: a systematic review update

“…Regarding reduction of STI incidence in women living with HIV, two studies individually mentioned favorable effects of behavioral interventions, but the results could not be pooled in a metaanalysis. STI diagnosis is a critical public health outcome in behavioral intervention trials, since solid evidence backs the biological pathways by which STI facilitate HIV transmission and the negative effects of multiple sexually transmitted infections, especially in women living with HIV 4,5,53 . We therefore emphasize that even small reductions in STI incidence could favor critical reductions in HIV morbidity and its associated treatment cost.…”

“…The Sistah Powah Structured Writing Intervention targeted aging, low-income, black women living with HIV, a group of women highly neglected by secondary prevention efforts because pregnancy is less likely and who face strong social vulnerability and stigma 53 . The intervention was conducted in small groups and was the only one that was exclusively peer-led, involved culturally relevant narrative techniques, and helped to build a social support network in a community setting.…”

Does the way I see you affect the way I see myself? Associations between interviewers' and interviewees' "color/race" in southern Brazil

“…Various studies in the health literature have grouped blacks and browns in a single category 28,29,30,31 . This procedure has generally been used as a justification to maintain high statistical power, since the two groups taken separately would constitute sparse strata.…”

A universalização dos direitos e a promoção da equidade: o caso da saúde da população negra

“…There is neither room nor need for discussing here each of the topics above, once they have already been problematized and confronted by an important subsequent literature 20,25,[31][32][33][34] . What matters highlighting is how the polemic around the field of black population health refers to the tensions depicted in the first section of this article.…”