A peçonha dos artrópodes sociais: a criminalização da transmissão do HIV no Brasil e no mundo

Abstract

The research deals with the analysis of the bill 198/2015 that presents itself as a proposal to turn the HIV transmission into heinous crime. The work analyzes the possible causes and consequences, if it was approved, in the light of human rights. The bill is part of a global phenomenon known as the criminalization of HIV transmission, that has been happening since the 1980s, when the first case of the aids epidemic happened in the USA. The trajectory of the aids epidemic in Brazil and in the world was analyzed, raising some questions about stigma and discrimination, the evolution of the antiretroviral therapy as a paradigm change, the models of public health adopted to stop the HIV transmission by health authorities and the subjects against who these questions regard and, consequently, their responsibility for the HIV transmission. This research also analyzes the media appeal that continues to perpetuate the criminalization during all these decades against aids, involving some questions that cannot be healed by the silence that revolve around the aids debate.