Editorial Especial

Abstract

The Brazilian Ministry of Health has been working in partnership with other Ministries and Secretariats to assure that health sector public policies are closely connected to the Human Rights directives that proscribe racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation discrimination.This commitment, backed by an intense mobilization of civil society organizations and also by academic institutions, is consistent with the principles of ethics, equity and social justice inherent to the well-recognized Brazilian policy of confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, that includes prevention at all levels and access to universal and free of cost antiretroviral drugs and to other strategic diagnosis and monitoring tools.