Valdir de Castro Oliveira

International cooperation Brazil-Cuba-Haiti: the role of community radios in strengthening social mobilization in the public health context in Haiti

The present article investigates the role of Haitian community radios in strengthening social mobilization, with the aim of supporting the actions undertaken in the field of public health in Haiti, based on the development of the Workshop for community radios, as part of the Tripartite Cooperation Brazil-Cuba-Haiti. The qualitative methodology is justified because of the study content, an analysis of documents and direct observation, through a case study presented at the Workshop held in the department of Hinches, in Haiti. This meeting was held in the context of the Working Group on Tripartite Communication, under the responsibility of the Health Channel/Fiocruz, in partnership with the Department for Health Promotion and Environmental Prevention of the Ministry of Health and Population of Haiti (DPSPE/MSPP/Haiti), with a proposal to better structure a network of multipliers in health promotion.

Comunicação e mediações em aids: um olhar sobre o silêncio e o silenciamento no universo feminino

This article discusses the production of the meanings of aids in the female universe through the notion of mediation. The term aims at outlining the symbolic representations that make up the epidemic among women. Our theory is that the relationships that women afflicted by HIV/aids have with society are full of silences that affect them twice: due to the stigma of the disease itself and to the power relations that they face with their partners. Yet, despite this reality, they seek alternative ways of appeasing the condition that affects women that are afflicted by HIV/aids in Brazil.