title: [AIDS and pauperization: principal concepts and empirical evidence].
abstract: This paper discusses methodologies for analyzing relations between social inequalities, marginalization, prejudice, and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, highlighting current difficulties and alternative research strategies. It also reviews the international and Brazilian literature, emphasizing: economic and macropolitical dimensions in the spread of HIV/AIDS; the role of drug policies and consumption; gender inequalities and prejudice; racial/ethnic inequalities and prejudice; and interaction with other STIs and their relationship to poverty; HIV/AIDS and health care standards, especially access to antiretroviral therapy; and human rights violations. Despite current methodological dilemmas in analyzing relations between psychosocial, cultural, and sociopolitical variables and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and the limited Brazil literature, such themes merit further investigation, addressing Brazilian social and cultural specificities and profiting from recently developed research strategies.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Informações em Saúde, Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
authors.forename: F I
authors.initials: FI
authors.lastname: Bastos
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Szwarcwald
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000628:therapy / Q000635:transmission; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D011287:Prejudice; D012924:Social Conditions