Abstract
This study aimed to reflect on the persistence and worsening of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Guinea-Bissau and the (im)possibility of the country to meet the targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS for 2025. It is a reflective study. Poverty, political-economic instability and cultural diversity are generally highlighted as the main and/or exclusive factor for the persistence of the HIV epidemic in Guinea-Bissau. This simplistic and reductionist view (deliberately) ignores death management politics on a global and national scale. It highlights the urgency of critical stances of the media, advocacy bodies and human rights activists towards a theoretical-practical engagement that seeks not only to dismantle the view that socio-economic and cultural factors are at the heart of the HIV epidemic, but also to highlight the use of this virus as an instrument of necropolitics.
Keywords
Guinea-Bissau; HIV; Global health; Capitalism; Necropolitics
Access in: https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.240577
