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By Herbet Daniel, Richard Parker
Delivering a cross-cultural point of view at the social building of AIDS in Brazil, this booklet offers learn by means of authors who've a a long time adventure in AIDS activism and social learn.
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Usually the questionnaires were returned with the space for sexual practices studded with erasures. First a check mark would be entered in the space for ‘heterosexual’; then that would be erased and another clearer check mark placed in the space for ‘bisexual’, and then a circle drawn around the word ‘homosexual’. There were also arrows, marks and lines in different colours and intensities, attesting to the uncertainty of both interviewer and interviewee. There was no lack of dissatisfaction on the part of the interviewers, who, in addition to those three words, made a point of often entering a ‘promiscuous’ before the word ‘homosexual’.
So long as AIDS was wreaking havoc only in these allegedly well defined ‘risk groups’, there was no reason to sound the alarm, no reason to alert that shapeless mass known as the ‘general public’. It is important to note though that, according to the official arguments, what made AIDS less important was not that it was a disease of homosexuals but that it was a disease of ‘rich’ people. Several official declarations were released to the effect that according to official statistics the disease in Brazil attacked the upper crust, a ‘fact’ which flew in the face of the experience of all community groups and health professionals affected by the epidemic.
Taken together, these social and cultural factors simultaneously distinguish the Brazilian case from better known examples in North America or central Africa, while at the same time perhaps linking it to any number of other Latin American, and even some Asian, societies. Indeed, they suggest that they very notion of overriding patterns characterizing the global epidemiology of AIDS may well be giving way with the passage of time—and that such patterns, to the extent that they do exist, may often threaten to obscure the particularities of HIV transmission in specific settings.