Tendências da política de enfrentamento do HIV/AIDS no governo Bolsonaro: desmonte e regressão em tempos de pandemia da Covid-19.

Abstract

The present dissertation analyzes the tendencies of the policy to face HIV/AIDS in the Bolsonaro government, a period in which the country came to be governed by an extreme right-wing president, defender of ultraconservative guidelines in the field of customs and counter-reforms of social policies, expressing an intensification of the appropriation of public funds, through the harshest attacks on social rights, synthesized in ultraneoliberalism. Parallel to this period of political, economic and social crisis, the country began to experience the global health crisis, resulting from the covid-19 pandemic, which required actions and strategies that ensured the least possible impact, given the power to spread the virus, of illness and, consequently, of deaths, demanding that social protection policies be strengthened and expanded, to make it possible to help the population, in what was similar to the emergence of aids, in the 1980s. The country's response to the issue of AIDS, which in a short time reached the level of an epidemic, was only possible due to the constitutional guarantees of full and free access to health, the SUS being the greatest symbol, with constitutional budget forecast and civil society participation in its decisions. Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil was marked by denial of science, misinformation and omission on the part of the federal government, which was slow to outline political strategies and promote actions aimed at protecting its citizens. This research was based on the dialectical critical method, through the categories totality, contradiction and mediation. Methodologically, we carried out a bibliographical and documentary research. The research indicates that, in addition to the irresponsibility in dealing with covid-19, there was the abandonment of other diseases, such as the response to HIV/AIDS, which went through a process of denial, invisibilization, discrimination and reduction of investments, compromising the goals of overcoming the epidemic. We identified trends towards underfunding of services, making AIDS and PLWHA invisible, reducing political participation, rescuing stigmas and abandoning prevention and education practices.