By Alan Berkman, MD, Jonathan Garcia, BA, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, DrPH, Vera Paiva, PhD, and Richard Parker, PhD
American Journal of Public Health, July 2005, Vol 95, No. 7
AbstractThe Brazilian National AIDS Program is widely recognized as the leading example of an integrated HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment program in a developing country. We critically analyze the Brazilian experience, distinguishing those elements that are unique to Brazil from the programmatic and policy decisions that can aid the development of similar programs in other low- and middle-income and developing countries.
Among the critical issues that are discussed are human rights and solidarity,
the interface of politics and public health, sexuality and culture, the integration
of prevention and treatment, the transition from an epidemic rooted among men
who have sex with men to one that increasingly affects women, and special prevention and treatment programs for injection drug users.
