Unintended consequences: evaluating the impact of HIV and AIDS on sexuality research and policy debates

Aids em cartazes: representações sobre sexualidade e prevenção da Aids nas campanhas de 1º de dezembro no Brasil (2013-2017)

“…The analysis of AIDS from the perspective of the human and social sciences has been focused on its symbolic dimensions, such as the experience of the disease, the forms of social mobilization, the sexual morals, among other issues 12,31 . Aligned with this thematic scope, the study made a quest for some keys to interpret the representations of sexuality and AIDS prevention in the December 1 st campaigns in Brazil.…”

Sex, human rights and AIDS: an analysis of new technologies for HIV prevention in the Brazilian context

“…The decision about condom use based in a process of risk classification following biological markers of serostatus and viral load indicates that people have agency over prevention speeches and practices. Moreover, it shows a process of acculturation of the knowledge produced by bioscience, 47 which, as the constructionist approach of sexuality and the human rights framework teaches us [48][49][50] , is always expected. Each person, at each meeting, reframes the prevention speeches that they access, according to their experience, their particular context of life, and their happiness projects.…”

“…At the same time, the attempts to desexualize the epidemics grew in the country, meaning that there were attempts to disregard sexuality as a body experience and sanitize sex. This movement (that occurs internationally since 2004 61 , influenced also by the emphasis on the importance of the macrosocial and structural aspects 49 ) has become more radical here since the politicization of sex as a theme in electoral campaigns grew and, against all scientific evidence, the political marketing prevailed on the principles of successful AIDS public policies, seeking to extract the physicality of sex from the sexual and reproductive health actions. The naming of a federal obstetric care program of "stork network" is emblematic, just as are the censorship by the Ministers and Secretaries of Health of campaigns aimed at fighting stigma and discriminations of prostitutes and homosexuals.…”

Emergência e institucionalização da sexologia em Portugal: processos, atores e especificidades

“…Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 32 (8) 25 , pesquisas dedicadas às doenças transmissíveis 26,27 e emergiram alguns movimentos sociais de combate à estigmatização da doença, como resposta a um discurso do risco associado à sexualidade, um discurso também moralista e moralizador, em torno da associação entre comportamentos desviantes e HIV/AIDS. A epidemia veio questionar as certezas que então vigoravam sobre o irreversível progresso da medicina em relação às doenças infectocontagiosas, originando um movimento de reflexão e pesquisa, e novas parcerias entre atores sociais (investigadores mé-dicos e ativistas, órgãos de saúde e organizações comunitárias etc.)…”