A proliferação da AIDS na classe pobre e com baixo nível de escolaridade no nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

In our research, we look at AIDS from the perspective of historical and dialectical materialism. Historically, the spread of human immunodeficiency virus - HIV in Brazil occurred during the 1980s, affecting initially the classes of higher education. Today, in the third decade of the pandemic, the data clearly allege that the virus spreads so increasing social class with lower educational levels, ie, AIDS affects specifically the poor. Estimates indicate that hegemonic, over 90% of ali cases of AIDS pandemic is concentrated in some countries of peripheral economies in Africa and Latin America. In Brazil, data indicate that about 50% of the population serologically positive for HIV is poor, with low educational level. It causes us to reflect deeply on the character excluding AIDS in the context of contemporary capitalism.