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Comparative Study
. 2012;7(10):1031-44.
doi: 10.1080/17441692.2012.736681. Epub 2012 Nov 9.

The impacts of AIDS movements on the policy responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa: a comparative analysis

Amy Nunn  1 , Samuel Dickman, Nicoli Nattrass, Alexandra Cornwall, Sofia Gruskin
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Comparative Study

The impacts of AIDS movements on the policy responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa: a comparative analysis

Amy Nunn et al. Glob Public Health. 2012.

Abstract

Brazil and South Africa were among the first countries profoundly impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and had similar rates of HIV infection in the early 1990s. Today, Brazil has less than 1% adult HIV prevalence, implemented treatment and prevention programmes early in the epidemic, and now has exemplary HIV/AIDS programmes. South Africa, by contrast, has HIV prevalence of 18% and was, until recently, infamous for its delayed and inappropriate response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This article explores how differing relationships between AIDS movements and governments have impacted the evolving policy responses to the AIDS epidemic in both countries, including through AIDS programme finance, leadership and industrial policy related to production of generic medicines.

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New AIDS cases in South Africa and Brazil: 1985–2008. Data sources: Brazilian Health Ministry, 2011, and Actuarial Society of South Africa AIDS Models, 2011
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AIDS-related deaths in South Africa and Brazil: 1985–2008. Data sources: Brazilian Health Ministry, 2011, and Actuarial Society of South Africa AIDS Models, 2011
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