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Public Health, HIV Care and Prevention, Human Rights and Democracy at a Crossroad in Brazil

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On January 2019, Brazil’s new far-right president Jair Bolsonaro was sworn into office. Bolsonaro’s administration supports downsizing the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), while increasing the size of the private health sector. The new administration might leave millions of Brazilians without medical care, including hundreds of thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS. Bolsonaro’s administration, allied with a highly conservative Congress and sharp decreases in federal funding for public health, education and research, could jeopardize key health and human rights strategies focused on women, LGBTQ + individuals, Indigenous populations, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (DEMQS-ENSP), FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Luiz Montenegro

  2. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Luciane Velasque & Ricardo de Mattos Russo Rafael

  3. Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA

    Sara LeGrand & Kathryn Whetten

  4. Public Health Nursing Department, Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Ricardo de Mattos Russo Rafael

  5. Division of Equity, Gender and Population, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Monica Malta

  6. Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada

    Monica Malta

  7. Social Science Department, Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (DCS/ENSP), FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Monica Malta

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Montenegro, L., Velasque, L., LeGrand, S. et al. Public Health, HIV Care and Prevention, Human Rights and Democracy at a Crossroad in Brazil. AIDS Behav 24, 1–4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-019-02470-3

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