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The Potential Demand for an HIV/AIDS Vaccine in Brazil
This study assesses the potential demand by the public sector for a preventive HIV/AIDS vaccine in Brazil and the costs of alternative strategies for a vaccination program. Brazil has a mature AIDS epidemic: the percent of the population living with HIV or AIDS (about 0.6 percent of adults) is not as high as in other severely affected developing countries, but infection rates in specific risk groups in the population are very high and HIV has spread beyond these groups into the general population of low-risk individuals. Preventive HIV/AIDS vaccines are still in the testing stage. The characteristics of the first vaccines developed, in terms of their efficacy, duration of effectiveness, ease...
AIDS no Brasil
Examina a resposta brasileira para a epidemia de HIV/AIDS em um periodo de 16 anos, de 1981 a 1996. Ela esta centrada em tres eixos: a resposta da sociedade civil; a resposta governamental, incluindo as questoes relacionadas ao emprestimo do Banco Mundial para projeto de prevencao e controle da AIDS no Brasil; e questoes relacionadas a medicamentos. No desenvolvimento da tese, eventos no Brasil sao analisados em sua relacao com estruturas internacionais mais amplas. Neste sentido, uma serie de desafios sao identificados e estao relacionados ao desenvolvimento da epidemia para o proximo seculo. Examinando a inter-relacao entre direitos humanos, opressao e justica social em relacao a epidemia de HIV/AIDS, a tese pretende contribuir nao somente para a analise destas questoes mas para o desenvolvimento de politicas sociais e de saude que permitam ao individuo gerenciar os seus riscos de infeccao pelo HIV e a ter acesso a tratamento e assistencia adequados(AU).
Global Pharmaceuticals
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical trade and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. They demonstrate that questions about who will be treated and who will not filter through every phase of pharmaceutical production, from precli...
The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines
Some papers presented at a conference held at Hyderabad in September 2010.
Structural Dynamics of HIV
This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization. It first examines how the socio-structural context shapes HIV risk and how affected populations and national governments and programs have responded to these structural constraints. Chapters focus on structural determinants of HIV risk among transgender women in Guatemala, migrant workers in Mexico, Nigeria and Vietnam, and people who inject drugs in Tanzania. Next, the book examines resilience and community empowerment and mobilization among key populations such as female sex workers in the Dominican Republic and India, and...
Will to Live
Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist João Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been so difficult to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV/AIDS, who are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to the public. More broadly, Biehl examines the political economy of pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts, revealing the possibilities and inequalities...
Anthropologies of Modernity
This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault’s contribution to current theories of modernity. Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations. Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS. Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa Ong, Paul Rabinow, and Rayna Rapp.
State-Sponsored Activism
Through a study of AIDS policy, this book introduces a new model of state-society relations in democratic Brazil.
