This publication (Number 6) is a continuation of the Public Policies Series and presents two texts on Cooperation, social mobilization and access to AIDS medication in Latin America: Case Studies on Bolivia and Paraguay, resulting from the project Cooperation, Social Mobilization and Decentralization of Public Policies on HIV/AIDS in Latin America, developed with the support of the Ford Foundation, and from internal cooperation actions with civil society in this region of Latin Am...

ABIA is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1986 to take action against the HIV/AIDS epidemic by mobilizing Brazilian society and advocate for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.  ABIA conducts educational activities, prevention and treatment community based interventions. Develops and disseminates information and knowledge on HIV and AIDS, monitors public policies concerning the epidemic such as s...

""Building each and every day the memory of HIV/AIDS and actively disseminating information about the epidemic"": this is the objective that has driven ABIA, since the 90s through its Documentation and Resources Center - CEDOC - to narrate the trajectory of AIDS.  As a result of ABIA " s efforts to provide society with as much information as possible on HIV/AIDS in Brazil,...

Editing in three languages, this publication brings a panoramic view of the “HIV/Aids and development: interfaces and public policies” seminar carried out in 2002 by ABIA and supported by Ford Foundation and Brazilian AIDS Program of Ministry of Health. In this occasion, researchers, activists, health professional and AIDS governmental programs´staff discussed in distinct moments, themes such as: AIDS and development, AIDS and poverty and political barriers related to the brazilian production of generic antiretrovirais medicaments, brazilian law of patents and international prerogativ...