Imagens da doença, políticas da notícia: Cenários e representações da aids na imprensa paraibana (1980)

• Autor(a) principal: Aguiar Júnior, Fernando Domingos de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9568
• topic: História da AIDS; Imprensa – Paraíba; Homoafetivo; Representação; History of AIDS; Press – Paraíba; Homoafetivo; Representation; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This dissertation had as main objective to realize through the newspapers – A União, O Norte and Correio da Paraíba – speeches about aids in the local scene, in Paraíba context. Starting up through theoretical considerations that justify the choice of newspapers and the press from Paraíba as objects of this research. At the same step, it presents a narrative that also seeks to justify taking the disease – aids in this case – also as a matter of history, specifically, because it is involved in the human context, revealing reactions, relationships, readings and changes inside the context of the social paradigms. Aids is presented in the scenario of the human sciences as a disease that was previously announced by the press, even before the first cases being diagnosed, this is also the dispute found in Paraiba - the news comes first and helps building images of the disease. On the context of the 1980s, when the first cases of aids, little was known about aids, therefore, images and metaphors were credited to the disease and therefore patients arises. In this scenario limits and ignorance, disease was surrounded by prejudice and personified by the patients, the target of a state that was silent and slow in effective responses to confront the epidemic, the same step that the measures created reinforced prejudices, resulting in violence daily, a scenario already painful for patients. The refusal to accept such violence, Led the movements of homosexuals in the country, to rethink their struggles; thereby organized into groups that exceeded the limits of the field of sexuality, and demanded that the Brazilian state responses against the disease together, bringing the country to become a world reference in fighting aids. In this research, we can identify the debates and speeches made by paraibana press, from the exhaustion of the institution of the risk groups, to the question of the place reserved for aids, addressing the disease and patients as a non-priority issue for the state, through the infeasibility of paraibanos hospitals to provide assistance to the sick, to the need to trigger health in neighboring states, to take care of those who Paraíba refused to attend. Thus, it presents part of this panorama of aids in Paraíba context.