The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health

João Biehl

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374643.003.0018

The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health

João Biehl

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This chapter examines the Brazilian response to AIDS, revealing the possibilities as well as the inequalities that accompany a magic-bullet approach to health care. It moves between a social analysis of the institutional practices shaping this therapeutic policy and an account of the experiences of people affected by it, particularly in impoverished urban settings where the epidemic is spreading most rapidly. It draws from interviews carried out with activists, policymakers, health professionals, and corporate actors and from longitudinal study of grassroots care services. A pharmaceutically-centered model of public health has crystallized and a multitude of networks and variations in AIDS care have emerged on-theground. Marginalized AIDS patients are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to the public.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Anthropology and Public Health
Subtitle of host publication	Bridging Differences in Culture and Society
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199865390
ISBN (Print)	9780195374643
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374643.003.0018
State	Published - Sep 1 2009

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General Arts and Humanities

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Brazil
Global AIDS treatment
Magic-bullet approach
Pharmaceuticals

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