From apartheid to aparthaids

A reflection on the HIV/Aids epidemic in Guinea-Bissau

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4190752
AutoresAmiry Monteiro Sanca (0000-0002-4767-0111, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Tiago Sousa Paiva (0000-0001-5989-9469, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Cristianne Maria Famer Rocha (0000-0003-3281-2911, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Deise Lisboa Riquinho (0000-0002-6604-8985, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Año2025
Volumen29
Fecha de publicación2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterface - Comunicação Saúde Educação (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1414-3283 • E-ISSN: 1807-5762
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/interface.240577
OpenAlexW4408019248
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas7

This study aimed to reflect on the persistence and worsening of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Guinea-Bissau and the (im)possibility of the country to meet the targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS for 2025. It is a reflective study. Poverty, political-economic instability and cultural diversity are generally highlighted as the main and/or exclusive factor for the persistence of the HIV epidemic in Guinea-Bissau. This simplistic and reductionist view (deliberately) ignores death management politics on a global and national scale. It highlights the urgency of critical stances of the media, advocacy bodies and human rights activists towards a theoretical-practical engagement that seeks not only to dismantle the view that socio-economic and cultural factors are at the heart of the HIV epidemic, but also to highlight the use of this virus as an instrument of necropolitics

Ethnology · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · New guinea · Reflection (computer programming · Computer Science · History · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Human Rights and Development · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Virology