title: [Response to AIDS in Brazil: contributions of social movements and the sanitary reform].
abstract: This paper briefly outlines how the political scenario and the mobilization of different actors have contributed to the construction of a public health policy in response to the AIDS epidemics in Brazil. Three factors are presented and discussed: the political context of the 1980s, characterized by redemocratization, growth of social movements, and consolidation of the Brazilian health care reform; the socio-cultural context of the 1970s and 1980s, characterized by achievement of individual freedom, which was key to the organization of the AIDS movement; and finally the actions carried out in the international scenario to support the sustainability of the Brazilian domestic policy and the reinforcement of a global response to face the epidemics in lower-middle income economies.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grangeiro
authors.forename: Lindinalva Laurindo
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Paulo Roberto
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Teixeira
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001938:Brazil; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006806:Human Rights; D007391:International Cooperation; D012961:Sociology; D014505:Urban Population