Between the secret and the possibilities of health care: (re) thinking the silences on travesti narratives about HIV/AIDS

Authors

  • Flavia do Bonsucesso Teixeira Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
  • Danilo Borges Paulino Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/Universidade de São Paulo
  • Gustavo Antonio Raimondi Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Cristina Apparecida Santos Crovato Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
  • Marco Aurelio Máximo Prado Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Keywords:

Aids, Female Transgender, Social Police, Equity in Health, Stigma

Abstract

This work discuss the meanings about Aids that circulate, both among travestis and public policy apparatuses, impacting their adherence to official health care initiatives. We argue it is necessary to understand the meanings of a politics of silence that has been discarding travesti narratives of experiences without understanding their universe, favoring a biomedical model of care policy. This bias has prevented the recognition of the multiplicity of meanings attributed to Aids that perform barriers and make it difficult to face the epidemic that remains concentrated in this segment.

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Published

2018-08-31

Issue

No. 29 (2018)

Section

Dossier

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