As contribuições dos Movimentos Sociais na promoção do Direito à Saúde a partir da Epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify how social movements, especially the LGBTQIA+ (previously called "homosexual movement") and health movements, contributed to the promotion of the right to health from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil, permeating the local, national and international spheres. To this end, a qualitative-deductive approach was chosen due to the nature of the work and, more precisely, its specific objectives. Initially, a literature review is carried out concerning the action of social movements, and the insertion of their political agendas, in the construction of the human right to health, in a more generalized discussion, based on the sociology of social movements and the third-world approach to international law (TWAIL). Then, the extent of the action of the national health and LGBTQIA+ movements in the context of the arrival of HIV/AIDS in Brazil is mapped, explaining the domestic legislative advances achieved in terms of public health since this time. Finally, the international initiatives in which Brazil was involved are verified, with a sharper view of how the multiple possible roles of civil society in these projects are addressed, followed by a reflection on what was found from this observation. In view of the argumentative structure, a bibliographic review is carried out, due to the conceptualization used, the available sources, and the extent of the production on the topics to be addressed. This leads to the choice of research techniques, which include the review of such production in books, articles and reports produced by reference agencies on HIV/AIDS. As a conclusion, the hypothesis has been confirmed that political, social, economic and institutional articulations of social movements and their local experiences, especially of the LGBTI+ community and the Brazilian health movement, since the arrival of HIV/AIDS in Brazil, collaborated in the elaboration, implementation and expansion of the scope of health policies, and consequently, in the promotion and protection of the Right to Health domestically and internationally.