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Saúde em Debate
Vol. 50 No. 150 jul-set (2026)
Evaluation, analysis and auditing of health policies
Vol. 50 No. especial 3 jun (2026)

Presentation of the special issue ‘Evaluation, analysis and auditing of health policies’: “In universal and complex systems such as the SUS, it is necessary to understand how public problems are defined, how priorities are established, how programs are implemented, what effects they produce, and how they can be corrected. At this level, the articulation among policy analysis, evaluation, and auditing is affirmed. […] It is precisely at the intersection between these three fields that the relevance of this special issue of ‘Health in Debate’ […]”.

Topics covered: Institutional changes and innovations in internal auditing of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS); Social participation in the regulation of electronic cigarettes in Brazil; The Argentine government’s response to COVID-19; The governmental internal audit of the Ministry of Health to the governance of federal hospitals and institutes in Rio de Janeiro; Health surveillance and Black population health; Primary Health Care medicines in Brazilian capitals; Audit in the Annual Management Report and in the opinion of the Health Council; Cancer policy and dependency; Health expenditures in the SUS; SUS internal audit in achieving the 2030 Agenda; Priority criteria in Brazil’s Farmácia Popular Program in relation to social vulnerability and the Mais Médicos Program; Monitoring and Evaluation in the state management of the SUS in Rio Grande do Sul; Internal audit of the SUS and the commitment to improving the quality and effectiveness of health policies; Governance and responsiveness: Implications for the context of public policies; Policy analysis: From absolute rationality to the centrality of institutions; Public policies, complementarity, and social transformation; Health inequity indicators for policy formulation, monitoring, and evaluation; Governance, evaluation, auditing, and corruption control; Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in Primary Health Care; The new specialized care policy: A change in the federative role of the Ministry of Health?; The Internal Audit Capability Model at DenaSUS; Monitoring internal audit recommendations as a driver of transformation in the Brazilian Unified Health System; Critical review of the book ‘50 años de políticas de salud’ by Ginés González García; Interview with Wesley Matheus da Silva about public policy monitoring and evaluation in Brazil’s federal government.
A look at collective health and the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) in the Cerrado territories
Vol. 50 No. especial 2 maio (2026)

The second special thematic edition of 2026 of Saúde em Debate (Health in Debate) brings to light ‘A look at collective health and the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) in the Cerrado territories’. The scientific editors “believed that this work reveals a critical knowledge gap in the Cerrado, especially regarding the articulation between sociobiodiversity and health, which demands urgency in formulating public policies that promote the protection and cultural appreciation of the biome. It is imperative to re-signify the effective right to health and access to SUS […] in this work, the reader will find arguments and evidence for the contribution of a systemic approach to health and the environment in public policies oriented to the emancipatory and sustainable transformation of the Cerrado”.

It brings together articles on the following topics: Medicinal plants in a municipality in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais; Therapeutic itinerary and access to health in rural communities of the Cerrado biome of Goiás; The self-care practices of raizeiros and raizeiras in the Chapada do Araripe as resistance to neo-extractivism; Indigenous health in the Cerrado: The Inỹ Karajá in focus; Food and nutritional sovereignty and security in the Tirecatinga Indigenous Land, Sapezal, Mato Grosso; air pollution from biomass burning and wildfires in the Legal Amazon and Northern Cerrado regions; Sociobiodiversity, collective health, and innovation in the Cerrado biome; Pesticides in the Cerrado; Ecocide, capitalism, and quilombola resistance in Cocalinho, Maranhão; The Cerrado and public policies in environment and health for the protection of sociobiodiversity; Economic development in the Cerrado: Implications for the environment and health; Human rights violations and health impacts: Violence against the peoples of the Cerrado; Repercussions of Brazilian livestock farming on human and environmental health; Health geography: Territories in search of professionals who know how to work with their feet on the ground; Agribusiness and health in the Cerrado and Amazon; Scientometric analysis of Dipteryx alata Vogel (Fabaceae); Cerrado, sociobiodiversity and health; Socio-environmental and health impacts caused by flooding and heat waves in Brazil; The promotion of intercultural territories: Educational itineraries in the Cerrado; Tick biodiversity in the Cerrado biome and implications for One Health; Cerrado traditional herbalists at university and a training experience for the Unified Health System; Cerrado: Scientific communication in health and environment through games and art; Uncovering the resistance and struggles of vulnerable territories in the Cerrado biome.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 50 No. 149 abr-jun (2026)

The editors-in-chief of ‘Saúde em Debate’ authored the editorial ‘CEBES in the debate on the relations between the public and the private’: “we present the guidelines that guide the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (CEBES) in the debate and action on the consequences of the exponential increase in private participation in the Unified Health System (SUS). […] The SUS, although it has achieved significant advances in vaccination coverage, primary care, organ transplants, and response to health emergencies, coexists with chronic underfunding and the vigorous expansion of a private health sector that is paradoxically fed by public resources”.

Topics covered: Medical councils on drug interventions against COVID-19; organ donation for family members of patients with Brain Death; Health impacts resulting from the implementation and operation of wind power projects; Integrative practices: An ecological study in the Northern region of Brazil; Integrated Sanitary Assessment Model for Hospitals; Caring for People Deprived of their Liberty at the Papuda Penitentiary Complex – Federal District; Racial discrimination and its effects on the well-being and university trajectory of Black students; Nutritional care for addressing obesity in Santa Catarina; medical entities and Bolsonarism during the Bolsonaro administration; Nutritionists as digital influencers; Gender and men’s health needs; Vaccination against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) among adolescents in São Paulo; Health Literacy for weight control and changes in food consumption markers; Persons with Disabilities in Brazilian social welfare; Discrimination experienced by LGBTQIA+ individuals and access to dental services; Gender biopolitics and obstacles to legal abortion care; Amazonia in Dispute: COP30, structural contradictions and impacts on Brazil’s Unified Health System; One Health as hegemony dispute; Oncological palliative care and bereavement; Performance of Brazilian and English PHC during the COVID-19 pandemic; On social determination and social overdetermination; Adolescent-Friendly Primary Health Care Units in Brazilian Municipalities.
Health and social protection policies for adolescents and young people
Vol. 50 No. especial 1 fev (2026)

The first special issue of 2026 of Saúde em Debate, ‘Health policies and social protection for adolescents and young people’, “brings together authors from diverse academic, research, and public management institutions who conceptualize, analyze, and strengthen the agenda for the protection, care, and social participation of adolescents and young people in the context of Brazilian public policies. The works dialogue with the contemporary challenges of the organization of actions and services within the scope of the Unified Health System (SUS), emphasizing the role of Social Determinants of Health (SDH), the centrality of Primary Health Care (PHC), and the need to expand the spaces for listening, participation, and protagonism of adolescents and young people” (excerpt from the Presentation of the journal).

Topics covered: Multidimensional poverty among adolescents in Brazil; Care as a protector for the mental health of adolescents; Attentive listening and meaning-making in adolescents’ relationships with school; Knowledge of adolescents about health services; Healthcare professionals on caring for transgender adolescents; Youth cultures, health, and art: Perspectives from young people living in the urban periphery; Unhealthy eating markers and associated factors among school adolescents in Montes Claros (MG); The use of electronic cigarettes and other drugs among adolescents; Intentionally self-inflicted injuries in adolescents from Mato Grosso, Brazil; ‘Suicide is not a clinical case topic!’: On taboos, particularities, and gaps in pediatric medical education; Intentionally self-inflicted injuries in adolescents residing in a state within the Legal Amazon region; The abandonment of outpatient nutritional follow-up in children and adolescents; Psychological suffering in institutional care units for adolescents; The complementarity of life cycles in human development; Adolescence in a fast-transitioning world: Tentative policies as regards the harmful use of substances; Primary Health Care in guaranteeing adolescents’ right to health in Brazil; Suicide trends in Brazil and the issue of adolescence; Sexual violence, pregnancy and abortion during adolescence: Reality of Brazilian society; In-Person Innovation Workshop for the Digital Health Booklet for Adolescents; critical review of the book ‘Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism’; Suicide in adolescence: A psychoanalytic approach.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 50 No. 148 jan-mar (2026)

Opening editorial of the first regular issue of ‘Saúde em Debate’, signed by the president of CEBES, Carlos Fidelis da Ponte: “In September 2026, the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (CEBES) will mark 50 years of existence and continuous struggle for the universalization of the right to health and the guarantee of dignified living conditions for all people. […] The commemorations […] far from being limited to institutional celebrations, are moments of critical reflection, reaffirmation of principles, and renewal of the militant commitment to the construction of a more just, solidary, and democratic society. This commitment runs through the history of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’, which, since its foundation, also 50 years ago, has been a privileged space for critical reflection, knowledge production, and intellectual intervention in the field of collective health”.

Topics covered: Bullying victimization among Brazilian students; Employment relationships and length of service of primary care professionals in Brazil; Biodanza as an Integrative and Complementary Practice within Brazil’s Unified Health System; Care after treatment for breast and endometrial cancers; Maternal deaths due to COVID-19 in Pará; The distribution of ophthalmologists in Brazil in 2024; School Health Program; Regional inequality in public dentistry in the state of São Paulo; Risk factors in the nursing category of a private hospital; Mental health care for adolescent drug users in the socio-educational care; Knowledge and attitudes of primary healthcare professionals and managers regarding aging; cervical cancer mortality in the state of Paraná; Regulation of substances by ANVISA; Gender inequalities in violence against sexual minorities in Brazil; Women workers in the Antônio Júlio settlement; Evaluation of training in Primary Health Care; Federal funding of Primary Health Care in Brazil; Assessment of medical education; The etonogestrel subdermal implant into the Brazilian Unified Health System.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 49 No. 147 out-dez (2025)

‘Inaep: the ethics of an influential elite in opposition to the ethics shared with social control’, title of the editorial that opens the last regular issue of 2025 of ‘Saúde em Debate’. Stretches: “With the publication of Law No. 14,874/2024, we entered a period of ‘legislative void’ starting in August 2024. The law did not specify whether to maintain the CNS’s regulations in effect, nor what to do with Conep, which continued to operate and review an average of 300 new research projects per month, receiving sensitive, multicenter, international projects, and projects involving populations considered vulnerable, such as indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and other traditional communities. As the law did not foresee that the old structure would no longer function, there was a period during which previous regulatory ordinances could be legally contested, as well as the opinions that approved or disapproved new projects. Without a federal decree or a ministerial ordinance, nothing had legal validity; everything was considered non-existent from a legal and juridical standpoint […] It will always be possible to find legal, administrative, and political solutions to the deadlocks in public health in Brazil. Since 1976, Cebes has taken positions on organizational issues, such as the More Doctors Project and, more recently, the Now Has Specialists Project, critically arguing for the need to address the legal, formal, and political aspects of these major structural initiatives of SUS”.

Topics covered: Integrative and Complementary Practices in Primary Health Care; Sexual and reproductive health of women affected by conjugal violence; Chronic disease in Primary Health Care; Oral health coverage among municipalities in Bahia; women’s health care in teaching hospitals in Brazil; Perinatal palliative care in Brazil; Abusive management, organizational restructuring and workers suicides; Operational and strategic management indices for Dental Specialty Centers; Sanitary regulation of cannabis-derived products authorized for importation in Brazil; Social mobilization and citizen participation in health councils; Active mobility as a health-promoting body practice in the school context; The right to health of health care workers in Latin America and Caribbean countries; The role of technology platforms in Brazil as a strategy for pandemic preparedness and response; The new PHC 2024 federal resource allocation model; Evaluation studies in health promotion in primary care; Phytotherapy in Primary Health Care in Brazil; Impacts of parliamentary amendments for democracy, federalism, and public health in Brazil; Medical education in the Amazon: Experiences of student movements for an anticolonial and popular education; interview with Luiz Carlos Fadel de Vasconcellos – A utopia can be concrete.
Workers’ Health as a Human Right: towards the 5th CNSTT
Vol. 49 No. especial 2 ago (2025)

This special issue of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’ is the result of a collective construction between the Brazilian Association of Public Health (ABRASCO), through its Thematic Group on Workers’ Health (GTSTT), and the Ministry of Health, through the General Coordination of Surveillance in Workers’ Health (CGSAT), in the commitment to contribute to the 5th National Conference on Workers’ Health (5th CNSTT). With the theme ‘Worker’s Health as a Human Right: towards the 5th CNSTT’, this edition aims to provide conference participants with input from the praxis of Workers’ Health (STT), especially on the changes in the world of work in the last decade […] The new ways of working induced by digital platformization have brought other forms of illness, many of them resulting from the intensification of precarious work, aggravated by the loss of social security and labor rights in the last decade, while new challenges are imposed on workers as a result of climate change and the financialization of the capitalist world”.

Topics covered: Evaluation of the implementation of ‘Qualifica Cerest’ in Porto Alegre; Psychological suffering, work intensification and mental exhaustion in Call Centers; Workplace violence amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará; Gender as a social determinant of health for motorcycle delivery workers on digital platforms; Social vulnerability from the perspective of workers affected by COVID-19; New work relationships on mental health in Paraíba; Workers’ Health as Human Rights; Neoliberalism is bad for health: New configurations in the world of work; Long working hours, political emancipation, and workers’ health; Care work on the health agenda: Invisibility, overload, and strain on female workers; National Policy on Workers’ Health; (PNSTT) in Primary Health Care; Representation and performance of Workers’ Health in Health Councils; Health surveillance in contexts of exposure to agrotoxics in Brazil; Workers’ rights in the context of the use of asbestos in Brazil; Migration and precarious work; Health policies for sex workers; Work in Traditional Peoples and Communities: Ecofeminist inspirations; Trans individuals in the workforce; Health, gender, and the invisibility of unpaid domestic work; Workers with disabilities in the face of the capitalist crisis; Workers’ Health as a Human Right: The foundations of the Brazilian Sanitary Reform; The Unified Health System and Workers’ Health in Brazil; The State Reference Center for Workers’ Health at the 5th Conference; The CEREST and the app-based delivery workers; Review of the book ‘História da fadiga: da Idade Média aos nossos dias’, by Georges Vigarello.
Technologies for the digital transformation of the Unified Health System
Vol. 49 No. especial 1 ago (2025)

The guest editors of the special issue ‘Technologies for the digital transformation of the Unified Health System’ present the journal, highlighting its relevance due to the panel of articles, essays, reviews, and experience reports on the digital transformation of the Unified Health System (SUS). […] given the high level of investment in health technologies, which does not always translate into improved services, especially in a complex scenario such as the SUS. The effective benefits of a technology depend directly on its adoption by users. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, proposes the fusion of technologies – physical, digital, or biological – in favor of innovation to improve society's living conditions, thereby impacting the development of products and services, including healthcare, which are now connected and personalized. […] The SUS can reap significant benefits from the sustainable adoption of new digital technologies, improving adherence, resolution, and responsiveness of services. This challenging environment offers opportunities for the development of the health sector in Brazil, whose vastness and regional differences demand solutions that are both comprehensive and customizable”.

Topics covered: Telemonitoring strategy in Basic Health Units during the COVID-19 pandemic; The usability of the e-SUS Território application in Brazil’s Digital Health Strategy; Serious games in continuing education for prenatal care; An mHealth application for foot care in people with Diabetes Mellitus; Usability of the eSUS Feedback system by managers of Primary Health Care units; Digital health in Primary Health Care in Brazil; Technologies into the COVID-19 work process in a favela in Rio de Janeiro; Older adults’ oral health follow-up in primary care: A teledentistry feasibility exploratory study; Geotechnologies for health decision-making: An analysis of vaccination indicators in Paraíba; SIGest: mHealth assistant for the clinical management of syphilis in pregnancy; Immunization Surveillance System in Brazil; teleconsultations to strengthening the Health Care Network in Santa Catarina; Access to removable dental prosthesis in public health through digital pathway in Rio de Janeiro; Using social media to detect public health rumors; Public health managers’ perception of the digital transformation of the SUS; Exploring SUS outpatient open data; Spatial technologies for identifying critical areas of TB-HIV coinfection: Application of Getis-Ord Gi*; Regional inequalities and low physician retention in Brazil; Fragmentation of data in the SUS: Interoperability in Recife and EBSERH; Health Economic-Industrial Complex, digital health in Primary Health Care and the risk of vulnerability 4.0; Digital health and COVID-19 response: Scoping review of solutions developed and implemented by BRICS countries; Predictive effect of digital phenotype on the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder; Teleconsultations in the management of waiting lists for medical specialties in Southern Brazil.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 49 No. 146 jul-set (2025)

The editorial in this edition of ‘Saúde em Debate’ discusses the More Specialists Program, which “presents incremental strategic alternatives to address the problems of healthcare gaps, inequities, and a lack of specialized assistance. However, its objectives must be short-, medium-, and long-term, which requires defining structural strategies for expanding the public sector and progressively weaning it from dependence on the private sector, reducing its relative size”.

The manuscripts present themes such as: Nursing workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil; Household practices for storing and disposing of medications; The remuneration logic of Specialized Outpatient Care; Community Health Workers and the use of digital health; Monitoring and Evaluation of food (and nutritional) security in Brazil and Argentina; Progress and challenges of the Nascer Bem Movement in Caruaru; Farmácia Cuidar+ Program; ‘Hospital Week’; Discourses of LGBTQIAPN+ people on suicide; first contact access and longitudinality in Primary Health Care; The Policy for Combating Violence against Women: Dialogues from CAPS; sleep quality, erectile function, and quality of life in men; Municipal managers’ perceptions of the PMAQ: Experience in the Crato Health Region, Ceará, Brazil; Management of mental health care in general hospitals; Plan for Combating Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in Brazil, 2011-2022; Pregnancy-puerperal cycle of transmasculine people; Analysis of healthcare judicialization in Minas Gerais; Analysis of healthcare judicialization in Minas Gerais; Implementation and pillars to support Advanced Access; The transformation of the mexican health system toward Primary Health Care; Scholarly publishing: Between science and the market; Scientific publication and originality in the face of institutional repository policy.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 49 No. 145 abr-jun (2025)

Written by members of the Health-Work-Law Center of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes), the editorial in this issue of ‘Saúde em Debate’ draws attention to the 5th National Conference on Worker’s Health, which will be held in August 2025. “Its central theme is to consider health at work as a Human Right. It is expected to be a turning point between what has been done so far and what can be done afterward. [...] The guarantee of this right spans popular participation in the form of the working class taking the lead. Since it is the working class that directly suffers the effects of exploitation and oppression and, therefore, has their human rights violated, the leadership of this debate/struggle cannot be delegated to any other party.”

Topics covered: Management and prenatal care in small and medium sized municipalities; An instrument to assess Barriers and Facilitators of Collaborative Interprofessional Practice; care of People Living with HIV; The clinical-care resolution capacity of multiprofessional teams in a municipality in the Northeast Region of Brazil; Pregnant women in the COVID-19 pandemic; Pharmaceutical Services in municipalities in Pará; A Critical Discourse Analysis of Brazilian anti-vaccine movements on Facebook; Matrix support in mental health: The perspective of professionals from Psychosocial Care Centers; Job insecurity: The case of nursing in a public hospital in Pernambuco; Nutrition and environmental issue; The transsexualization process from the narrative of trans people, managers and health professionals; Impact of dengue research funded by the Ministry of Health in Brazil; Emergency Care Unit and Primary Health Care; Fires in sugarcane cultivation and associated respiratory diseases in a municipality in Pernambuco; Grand Challenges Brazil: One decade of health research funding; Validation of the Piers-Harris Children Self-Concept Scale in Brazilian Portuguese for adolescents; Primary care workers’ perception of mental healthcare following the implementation of matrix support; Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil, Argentina and Scotland; Collective resilience: A glance over the work on Primary Health Care; The qualitative analysis of contributions received in CONITEC’s public consultations: Theoretical and methodological reflections; The medicalization of suffering and the overdiagnosis of depression; the concept of care and the Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health; The developmentalist thought at the root of the Economic-Industrial Health Complex; Educommunication and public health in Brazil; Application of Artificial Intelligence in Primary Health Care; Microplanning in high-quality vaccination.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 49 No. 144 jan-mar (2025)

The editorial of the first edition of 2025 presents the proposals of the new board of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes) for the 2025-2026 management: “The following two years will be of intense work. We will pay special attention to the financial sustainability of Cebes, membership expansion, and generational renewal, incorporating new themes into the political and academic debate. We will strengthen our activities as a Study Center, improving our analysis and formulation role while maintaining and expanding our ties with civil society and the population. We continue together. Long live Cebes!”.

Topics covered: COVID-19 pandemic on Maternal Mortality in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul; Social movements and public policies in the construction of health rights; Sexuality and human rights in a school context; Occupational stress among civil engineering professionals in the Brazilian Amazon; Nutritional care to address obesity in Primary Health Care; Social movements, human rights and the people deprived of liberty in the context of COVID-19; Home nutritional care for children and adolescents followed by the Better at Home Program; Matrix support and maintenance of the link with primary care; Health movement in the 2013-2022 context; Masculinity constructions on the health of homeless men in Florianópolis-SC; Return-to-Work challenges from workers’ perspective after work-related sick leave; The database quality of the National Controlled Products Management System; Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices instrument for coping with epidemics and pandemics; Institutional support in health management: The case of COSEMS-CONASEMS supporters; The federal incentive for Physical Activity in primary care; The Discourse of Collective Affirmation about COVID-19 pandemic life experiences in the São Remo favela; Educational practices on sexually transmitted infections; Protocol for referring patients with cervical cancer to palliative care; The performance of the National Health Council in the National Policy on Pharmaceutical Assistance; Social markers of difference, intersectionality and collective health: Necessary dialogues for health teaching; The One Health approach to face bacterial resistance to antibiotics in livestock production; Chronicity in mental health in Brazilian scientific production; Evaluating policies, programs, and services for sexual violence care; Performance of health consortia in the Brazilian public health system; Pesticides and the development of cancer in farmers; High-cost medicines present in Brazilian scientific and academic literature on health judicialization; Practices and beliefs in childcare relationships in quilombola territories; Coping with syphilis in homeless people.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 48 No. 143 out-dez (2024)

The editorial in this issue of the journal brings the concept of One Health to the debate: “The discourse instituted by ‘One Health’ places the level of the world of men, animals, plants, and the biological context on a single plane without considering the biopower and biopolitics existing in the relations between society and nature and capital and labor. It seems to us a step backward to replace Public Health policies, guided by the concepts of the field of Collective Health, only by the look of zoonoses control, ‘good laboratory practices,’ the ‘use of drones’ and ‘gadgets,’ dispensing with critical and social epidemiology, social sciences and humanities, political ecology, among other disciplinary fields that have been so well amalgamated in the confrontation of contemporary reality, which, from the middle of the twentieth century onwards, have shown how the harmfulness resulting from social and nature exploitation affects health in an interdependent way and is producing new and increasingly complex health crises. […] CEBES believes that democracy is health and that health and human life on Earth are socio-environmental processes that are historically determined and increasingly mediated by the ways of producing, working, consuming, valuing nature, and relating to the cultural dimensions of subjectivities, politics, culture, and the arts. Therefore, he reaffirms that health is a product of social accumulation and a popular achievement. Acting based on these principles implies intervening in biopower and biopolitics, in the command of institutional public health policies subordinated to the process of social participation and based on the assumptions of collective health based on the economic and social determination of health.”

Topics covered: Basic sanitation management in Amazonas state; Over-the-counter medicines registered in Brazil; Access barriers: Perception of Street Clinic workers; Mental health care for adolescents in a socio-educational regime; Mental suffering in mental health workers; Social determinants of health in Angola; Morbidity from Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Brazil; Integrative and Complementary Practices in Primary Health Care in a northeastern Brazilian capital; Interprofessional Education in Multiprofessional Residency in Primary Health Care; The role of the Network of Women Producers of Pajeú in the construction of agroecological territories in coexistence with the Semi-arid region; Health care for border residents; Racism in healthcare environments and associated factors in black women; Management of Pharmaceutical Services: Qualifica AF results; Interprofessional collaborative attitudes in the Family Health Strategy; Adolescent health indicators in Mercosur countries; Socio-demographic disparities in colorectal cancer in Brazil; The precariousness of work on digital platforms; Oral health care in the SUS during the COVID-19 pandemic; Geography and health: The contemporary production of a diseased spatial theory.
Strategies for the qualification of Primary Health Care in the Federal District
Vol. 48 No. especial 2 out (2024)

Presentation of this edition: “This special issue of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’ was designed within the scope of the Primary Health Care Qualification Program of the Federal District (Qualis-APS), implemented in 2019. […] stems from the need to permanently provide critical reflection on the consolidation of Primary Health Care (PHC) in the Federal District (DF) and Brazil. […] aims to inspire the development of innovative and effective practices, supported by investments in valuing work, training workers, improving the structure of health services, and building evaluation processes. These are fundamental for strengthening PHC and an increasingly problem-solving [Unified Health System (SUS)]”.

Topics covered: Family Health Teams in the Federal District, Brazil; Structure component on the quality of Primary Health Care in the Federal District; Structural of Primary Health Care Units in the Federal District; e-SUS reports for Primary Health Care in the work routine of Family Health teams; Primary Health Care on Twitter amid pandemics; Family Health Strategy dental surgeons’ perception of Integrative and Complementary Practices; Institutionalizing the evaluation and monitoring of Primary Health Care in the SUS; Notion of territory in the field of collective health; Usual Source of Care in the assessment of primary care; Integrative and Complementary Health Practices on the quality of life and symptoms of climacteric women; coproduction of the Qualis-APS program to increase quality in Primary Health Care in Brasília; Specialization course for PHC managers based on Continuous Education in Health; Formative experience using the electronic portfolio; Coordination in Primary Care and integration in the Health Care Network.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 48 No. 142 jul-set (2024)

Paragraph concluding the editorial ‘For a SUS career to advance Health Reform’, signed by Ronaldo Teodoro, associate editor of ‘Saúde em Debate’: “In 2024, the year of the 4th National Conference on Labor Management and Health Education, the debate on the career of the SUS will take on a decisive historical power. Many social movements understand this urgency and are formulating an alternative program to the managerial field. In sync with this political temporality, the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (CEBES) held its first Free Labor Conference this year. In its program, it reaffirmed the thesis that the various fronts of the health program require a recomposition of the value of work and that the direction of the SUS is directly associated with the daily challenges its workers face. This editorial is a fraction of the energy and hope gathered at this meeting”.

Topics covered: Quality standards of primary care in the Federal District; Care regulation for the territorial and regionalization sustainability; Health management performance in the oil spill disaster crime on the coast of the state of Pernambuco; Primary Health Care Qualification for laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 in the Federal District, 2020-2021; Permanent health education in palliative care in primary care; Chronic diseases in the non-village indigenous population; Itineraries of prostate cancer patients; The subjects of Brazilian official discourse on LGBT health; Knowledge, skills and attitudes for public health management; Fourth Generation Evaluation: interventions carried out in mental health crisis care; Heterogeneous pattern of COVID-19 mortality in Brazil; Parents perception regarding children who underwent elective surgery; Multiple myeloma in Brazil: an assessment of Global Burden Disease study 2019; Contingency plans and state coordination in the COVID-19 pandemic; Working in the COVID-19 pandemic; Logical Model for the implementation of pharmacist prescribing in Brazil; Therapeutic itinerary for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis; Accessibility to Primary Health Care services in rural municipalities of Brazil; Analysis of the bills 478/2007 and 882/2015; Profile of preceptors of health residency programs in specialization: cross-sectional study; Intersectionality, human rights and reproductive justice; Paulo Freire’s contributions to improving the doctor-patient relationship; Materialist reading approach to the discourse of health evaluation: criteria and standards; Violent situations in population surveys.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 48 No. 141 abr-jun (2024)

Editorial signed by the journal’s scientific editors: “The effects of climate change on the planet, predicted by scientists for the coming decades, have already come. In the first months of 2024, floods occurred in countries in Africa (Kenya) and Asia (Indonesia, Afghanistan), leaving hundreds dead and thousands homeless. In May, in Brazil, rain caused the biggest tragedy in the history of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and one of the biggest in the country. […] Solidarity, demonstrated from North to South of the country, involved the most diverse sectors of society, artists, influencers, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), social movements, sectors of the economy and media, with donations and direct action in civil defense, which proved fundamental in the first days of the tragedy, when the objective was to save lives, by rescuing stranded people and animals, searching for the missing and sheltering the homeless. However, this solidarity – necessary and fundamental – does not replace the role of the State as neoliberals, defenders of the minimal State, tried to make us believe. Without public investments, there is no way to recover the destroyed infrastructure (roads, bridges, airports, schools, health services etc.) nor to stimulate the recovery of the productive sector (commerce, industry, agriculture, and others), nor to guarantee the transfer of financial resources to the families”.

Topics covered: People-environmental affectiveness in community gardens; Food environment in a socially vulnerable territory in Piraquara-PR; Environmental and occupational exposure to pesticides that affect cancer patients in Mato Grosso, Brazil; The battle against hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic: mental health in a favela at São Paulo; Working conditions and health of frontline professionals in the COVID-19 pandemic; Pesticides in Pernambuco sugarcane fields and damage to workers’ health; Front for Life and updating the Brazilian Health Sector Reform Movement; Palliative Care in a referral oncology hospital; Food and nutritional insecurity in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic; Prescription of benzodiazepines in Health Centers; Work of oral health teams in the COVID-19 pandemic; Atenas Program: Pioneer Brazilian service of outpatient care by telemedicine for women with miscarriage or incomplete abortion; Cross-cultural validation of ImpRes-Tool-BR; Therapeutic itineraries of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the SUS in the Federal District; The training-work relationship in the SUS; Body Practices and Physical Activities from 2004 to 2023; Palmore-Neri-Cachioni Questionnaire on Basic Knowledge about Old Age; Teaching in Residency in the Professional Health Area in Brazil; Experiences of young people with HIV/AIDS; Financing public mental health in Rio de Janeiro; Assessment of Primary Health Care; Anxiety and depression in health workers in a COVID-19 ICU; Planning of COVID-19 testing in Amazonas, Brazil; Evangelicals, ‘neoconservative agenda’ and women’s health policy.
Sustainable and Healthy Territories
Vol. 48 No. especial 1 ago (2024)

Excerpts from the journal's presentation: “This special issue of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’, entitled ‘Sustainable and Healthy Territories’ [TSS], celebrates the five years of the Institutional Program for Sustainable and Healthy Territories (PITSS) […] of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ). Through this issue, we intend to give visibility to experiences that sought to promote health and sustainability in the territories, bringing alternatives for emancipatory actions and building futures. […] In total, this issue has brought together 27 published works, including original articles, essays, opinion pieces, and experience reports. They present successful experiences in the field of TSS, such as the implementation of courses and training processes involving communities, the development of social technologies and new forms of governance, the establishment of partnerships and articulations with local managers, and the development of new methodologies and communication strategies. FIOCRUZ plays a crucial role in promoting health and scientific research in Brazil. As an institution that mobilizes science for life, its challenge is to maintain ongoing dialogue with the diverse territories and populations that make up our country, such as urban peripheral populations and indigenous and traditional peoples. […] We hope you enjoy the reading!”.

Topics covered: Water as a central element for the construction of sustainable and healthy territories in the Middle Jequitinhonha; Territories of social-environmental management and health in the Amazônia; Care network for Homeless Population in the COVID-19 pandemic; Promotion of Healthy and Adequate Food in a rural territory; Reflections of the COVID-19 pandemic on food sales in farmer’s markets in Maciço de Baturité-CE; Emancipatory struggle for life against agribusiness in Chapada do Apodi-CE; Exposure to food deserts and food consumption markers among children; Sustainable maritorios and environmental suffering in Chilean Patagonia; Vulnerabilization of wind enterprises in a peasant community in the Southern Agrest of Pernambuco; Populations exposed to pesticides in Mato Grosso; Socioenvironmental vulnerabilities in small-scale fishing in Pernambuco; Socio-environmental and psychosocial impacts caused by oil spills; Performance of a municipal health secretariat in the face of the oil disaster-crime in Pernambuco; Indigenous representation in higher education: promoting health and sustainability beyond territories; The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals as a strategy for health equity and sustainable and healthy territories; The need to build health care and surveillance in the context of climate change; The territorial approach in Sustainable and Healthy Territories: a conceptual enlargement from anthropology; Contributions of the concept of body-territory and community feminisms; Producing knowledges ‘together with’ social movements and territories for the paradigmatic transition; Reports from quarantine: what society(ies) will emerge after the coronavirus?; Conceptual notes for the proposal of sustainable and healthy territories; Sustainable and Healthy Territories in the SUS: The intrinsic relationship with the Agenda 2030; Popular Agents in promoting more sustainable and healthy territories; Agroecology and food sovereignty; Technical advice on social housing in Sector 1 of Colônia Juliano Moreira; Territory and lack of water access: an educational experience in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Turbo, Antioquia (Colombia); Territorial and community interventions in mental health of traditional communities in Paraty.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 48 No. 140 (2024)

The editorial ‘What do women want? Sexual and reproductive health and rights’, signed by the editors of Saúde em Debate, Ana Maria Costa and Lenaura de Vasconcelos da Costa Lobato, begins the journal with the following question: “Every year, the month of March is an invitation to reflect on the female condition, our achievements and challenges before the State, governments and society. There is no doubt that, from the place where we were thrown and subjected in the hierarchy of power in society, we have come a long way. However, even so, there is still a long way to go that covers the legal, economic, cultural, and many other spheres. In health, and medicine in particular, a woman’s body and identity have never been the subject of the deserved and necessary respect. Since the beginnings of so-called Modern Medicine, textbooks have taught barbaric things about women and guided excessive interventionism, confirming the pattern of patriarchy in the science of caring for the body and soul. From this perspective, the medicalization of the female body is seen as an effect of discomfort and disrespect on women as subjects and citizens”.

This edition addresses the following themes: Specialization in Popular Health Education in the Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Territories at Fiocruz; Physiotherapeutic activities in primary care; Doulas in a Brazilian border region; Social and health indicators in municipalities of Minas Gerais according to the rural-urban typology; The Social Determinants of Health inside and outside the household; Health in the Middle Solimões region, state of Amazonas: the centrality of Tefé; Quality dimension of the National Register of Health Establishments; Health care for adolescents who are susceptible to drug use; From the ‘Rede Cegonha’ to ‘RAMI’: tensions between paradigms of maternal and infant health care; Oral Health Promotion at the workplace in rural áreas; Previne Brasil Program; Professional profiles and educational practices of oral health in Primary Health Care; Dental care for pregnant women in Primary Care among municipalities in Bahia; Psychosocial factors and common mental disorders in telework in the labor judiciary during the COVID-19 pandemic; Yoga: a hermeneutic essay on the ontology of the upaniṣad’s; Saúde Única no Pantanal e na fronteira oeste; Access to contraceptives and the right to health in Angola; book critical review ‘Saúde é desenvolvimento: o Complexo Econômico-Industrial da Saúde como opção estratégica nacional’.
Human Rights, Justice, and Health: gender and sexuality
Vol. 47 No. especial 1 dez (2023)

Excerpt from the presentation of the special issue of Saúde Debate on ‘Human Rights, Justice, and Health: gender and sexuality’, signed by the guest editors of this edition “The intersection between human rights, gender, and sexuality is increasingly recognized as a crucial area of public health research and policy-making. The texts in this thematic issue show how health outcomes are profoundly influenced by the social determinants of health, which must include factors such as gender identity, sexual orientation, and the systemic inequalities that individuals face daily as a consequence of their living conditions”.

Topics covered: Notifications of violence in the State of Rio de Janeiro; National LGBT Comprehensive Health Policy in the municipality of Resende, Rio de Janeiro; Transvestites and transsexuals accessing hormonal treatment at the AMIG (RJ); Oral health care in the LGBTQIA+ population; Critical Discourse Analysis on ‘gender ideology’; The nursing perspective in the context of health care for the LGBTQIA+ population; Self-harm and interpersonal violence among the LGBT population, state of Rio de Janeiro; Sexual diversity and social stigmas in the SUS for the LGBTQIA+ community; Trans identity and access to health in Macaé (RJ); The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence victim’s access to justice; The health of lesbian and bisexual women in Belford Roxo/RJ; itinerary through LGBTQIA+ health in SUS and its meanings in Valença/RJ; Assessment of LGBTQIA+ access by health professionals at a Municipal Health Center of Rio de Janeiro; Mental health: where do gender issues arise? Cisgender women roles; Breaking the cycle of violence among women hosted in the Lilac Room of the Forensic Medical Institute in downtown Rio de Janeiro in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; Violence against the LGBTQIA+ population from the perspective of ESF/NASF professionals; feminicidal violence against black women’s health; The prison experience of transvestites; Transgender people, transvestites, and transhuman rights: The case of morphological freedom; Praxis for reproductive, erotic and gender justice; Sexual work in Brazil; A queer bioethics: perspectives from the Global South; Programmatic vulnerability from the perspective of LGBTQIA+ professionals and older people; harm reduction aimed at the population of trans women and transvestites; Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ population in Primary Health Care; Primary Health Care in Brazil and the LGBTI+ population; Occupational Health, gender, and race in a postgraduate course; Adolescents’ health: diversity, dignity, and human rights.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 47 No. 139 (2023)

The editorial of the last regular issue of ‘Saúde em Debate’ from 2023, ‘Tax reform and health. After all, what do we pay taxes for and who do they serve?’, is signed by Francisco Funcia and José Noronha, who conclude at the end of the manuscript: “[...] it is necessary to forcefully undo the myth that there is no money to finance public policies and ensure constitutional ties to Health and Education. In addition, face the brutal regressiveness of our tax system to, in fact, reduce our cruel inequalities. For this, it is necessary to mobilize society, activate social participation, and increase the various mechanisms of political pressure to, after reconstruction, build a more just and supportive Brazil”.

Topics covered: Workloads, precariousness and worker health in agribusiness in the semi-arid region of Northeast Brazil; Exogenous intoxication and occupational and environmental exposure of cancer patients in Mato Grosso; Occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2; Work Ability and neuropsychological effects among workers who have had COVID-19; impact of bolsonarismo on COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Brazilian municipalities; Coping strategies in Primary Health Care in the COVID-19 pandemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil; National Health Council in the COVID-19 pandemic; Emergencies in Public Health, disasters, and risk; Primary Health Care in Remote Rural Municipalities in West Pará; Work and illness risks in Territorial Psychosocial Care; Technical-pedagogical dimension in the performance of Amplified Family Health Nucleus and Primary Care; Interprofessional Education in health courses; Conformation of the ‘modern’ Brazilian nursing and interfaces with Psy Knowledge; women victims of Domestic Violence in the context of Primary Health Care; psychotropic drugs and Mental Health care in Primary Health Care; Health equity for homelessness; Process of organizing the work of the Expanded Family Health and Primary Healthcare Centers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil; Critical review of the book ‘Health promotion in nursing practice’ by Nola Pender, Carolyn Murdaugh and Mary Ann Parsons.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 47 No. 138 jul-set (2023)

The editorial for this issue of ‘Saúde em Debate’, signed by members of the Cebes team, discusses the 17th National Health Conference (CNS): [...] held from July 2 to 5, 2023, was yet another ‘act of invention of democracy’ in Brazil. The CNS continues to represent the challenges and potential of one of the oldest mottos of the Brazilian Sanitary Reform (RSB), and which permeates the creation of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes): Health is Democracy and Democracy is Health. The National Health Conferences emerged as a State planning instrument in 1941. Then, their composition reflected the technocratic and vertical perspective of the idea of health: a meeting formed essentially by public health specialists, mostly physicians, who would define the guidelines of the major programs of the Brazilian State for the sector, with special focus on the field of infectious and contagious diseases, to which public health was then restricted. [...] The RSB proposal presented in 1979, still in the context of the dictatorship, contributed to the 8th CNS, in which the segment of users of public health services, represented by multiple popular and union organizations, was present and constituted half of the total number of the delegation, whose proposals were systematized in a small and very powerful report with three themes: health as a right, reformulation of the national health system, and financing”.

Topics presented: Innovation strategies in medicines and vacines; Global pharmaceutical company and public institution of production and innovation in health; COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the early response in Colombia; Regional management in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo; Regional and Macroregional Dependency Index in the SUS; Primary Health Care Policy: consensus and disputes in deliberative spaces of the SUS; Patient safety in Primary Health Care; violence against women reported in a Rio de Janeiro hospital in 2020; Prevalence of sexual violence against Brazilian men and factors associated with forced sex; Medical education: movements triggered by the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program; Residencies in health: training professionals for the SUS; infant mortality in Rio de Janeiro; Fetal malformations: the use of pesticides in Rio Grande do Sul; Prenatal care in the pandemic of COVID-19; Diabetes Mellitus in Basic Health Units in Brazilian capitals; Sérgio Arouca at the UNICAMP School of Medical Sciences; Funding for research on dengue in Brazil, 2004-2020; Efficiency in public health: a concept from engineering; The conflict mediation potential to control arboviruses vectors in Brazilian slums; Bariatric surgery in the SUS; Mental health of hospital health professionals in the COVID-19 pandemic; Decision of health professionals about their anti-COVID-19 vaccination; Brief Intervention for Psychoactive Substance use in Brazil; risk classification protocol for cancer patients in Home-based Palliative Care.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 47 No. 137 abr-jun (2023)

Eli Iola Gurgel Andrade, Ana Maria Costa and Maria Lucia Frizon Rizzotto sign the editorial of Saúde em Debate nº 137. The authors revisit “the concept of Social Security as the central axis for guaranteeing social protection, structured as a responsibility of the State, to be guaranteed to all Brazilians, as expressed in the Federal Constitution of 1988 (CF/88)”. They point out that “More than three decades later, the destruction of rights and setbacks that have taken place in recent years challenge the democratic reconstruction of Brazil. At this moment, therefore, it is essential to resume the debate that originated the notion of Social Security, to which the universal right to health was integrated” and “the challenge remains of rethinking the social security model for the 21st century, considering the issue of population aging, the epidemiological profile and the need for a new social policy of continuous care as one more of the pillars of Social Security”.

Topics addressed: Changes in the primary care policy and the (un)sustainability of the Family Health Strategy; The health of the black population in Primary Health Care: inequality in times of COVID-19; Residents for the resilience of Primary Care in the context of COVID-19; Ministry of Health and the the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil; Health Fund and its appropriation by Social Organizations in the municipality of São Paulo; Training process for leprosy control; Detection of breast cancer in primary care; Policy on Integrative Health Practices of Federal District in Brazil; Tensioning in Mental Healthcare related to Psychoactive Substance use; Sociodrama as a qualitative research strategy with Community Health Workers; Production of truths about blood donation: an analysis from the perspective of Foucault; Medical organization doctors and policy communities’ influence over Brazilian Health Workforce Policies; Expansion and privatization of medical courses and teaching-service integration in Pernambuco; Hospitalization and mortality from Parkinson’s Disease in Brazil; Pharmaceutical policies: political facts produced by the Federal Legislative Branch; Edentulism, need for dentures, and self-perception of oral health among institutionalized older people; Politics of identity (dis)affections: psychoanalytic-phenomenological interface of liberal democracy and public policies; Online social Support; Quality assessment of online health information; The national scientific production on complex chronic conditions in pediatrics; Work and health conditions of women rural workers; Health care for homeless persons; Collective construction of mental health indicators in Psychosocial Care Centers; Service-academy integrative action project for STI/HIV testing in mobile units in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro; Book review 'Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era' by Sean Valles.
Saúde em Debate
Vol. 47 No. 136 jan-mar (2023)

Excerpts from the editorial of the first issue of ‘Saúde em Debate’ of 2023 – ‘The reconstruction of the SUS and the fight for rights and democracy’: “The Unified Health System (SUS) is going through one of its most serious crises. Since the 2016 coup, several health policies and programs have been insidiously and deliberately disrupted. Both the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes), through positions and outstanding political action as one of the coordinating entities of the Front for Life (FpV), and the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’, in several editorials and articles published in that period, significantly contributed to the critical analysis and denunciation of the enormous damage to Brazil caused by the Temer and Bolsonaro administrations. [...] . The only reason why the situation was not even more critical is because of the resilience demonstrated by the SUS, to which the responses produced by state and municipal managers and the selflessness and capacity for reinvention of its workers contributed greatly [...]”.

Brazil’s foreign policy and health (1995-2010); Hospital Component in the Emergency Care Network; HIV self-test among adolescent Men who have Sex with Men, and travestis and transgender women; Descolado Program in preventing drug use in the school contexto; Oral health of homeless women; Schizophrenia, the biomedical model and media coverage; Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health; Accuracy of the information on websites about visceral leishmaniasis; COVID-19 Information Needs; Primary care workers in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic; exclusive beds for COVID-19 in the state of Espírito Santo; violence against Brazilian multiprofessional residents during the pandemic; offer of hospitals and hospital beds in the state of Amazonas in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic; Precarious work in Territorial Psychosocial Care; Primary Health Care as an antidote against de-democratization and neoliberal necropolitics; Practices in primary care: comparative analysis between Brazil and Portugal; Work and suicide risk; Epidemiology and human emancipation: principles of justice; Cadmium exposure and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy; ‘Street Outreach Teams’: HIV/AIDS, drugs and Harm Reduction.
Resilience of National Health Systems
Vol. 46 No. especial 8 dez (2022)

The scientific editors of ‘Saúde em Debate’ special issue ‘Resilience of National Health Systems’ present the journal: “[...] The Special Thematic Issue (NTE) offers a comprehensive and diverse panel of articles, essays, digests, and reviews from a domestic and international perspective on resilience, sustainability, and institutional capacity in the health sector. [...] The works point to the construction of a research agenda on the capacity of national systems or health organizations to respond to radical disturbances. It is assumed, in this sense, that the identification of resilience can favor the strengthening of the health system and ensure collective protection. [...] To reflect on these particularities, the NTE brings together several studies and research on the functioning of the SUS, with special emphasis on dilemmas and innovations in Primary Health Care (PHC)”.

Topics covered: Assessment of Primary Health Care: The ‘Previne Brasil’ Program; International inequality in the fight against COVID-19 and public spending; Health Care Network during disaster situations: a case study of the Kiss Nightclub in Santa Maria-RS; Political epistemes of COVID-19; Health Gym Program in the COVID-19 pandemic; Resilient performance of primary care longitudinality during the COVID-19 pandemic in vulnerable territories in the city of Rio de Janeiro; COVID-19 pandemic and hospitalization in the g100 municipalities; APS Award in the Unified Health System-Brazil; Artificial intelligence and forecasting of death by COVID-19 in Brazil; Resilience in public health: precepts, concepts, challenges, and perspectives; confronting post-COVID-19 health inequalities and vulnerabilities; Health systems resilience: notes for a research agenda for the SUS; Contribution of logistics to the strengthening of national production and universal access in the scope of the Unified Health System; Social technologies for disaster risk management actions; Oil disasters and government actions in the face of social, environmental, and health-related impacts; critical review ‘Health as a human right: The politics and judicialisation of health in Brazil’ by Octávio Luiz M. Ferraz.
HIV/AIDS care policies and practices: interdisciplinary dialogues
Vol. 46 No. especial 7 dez (2022)

With great pleasure, the journal 'Saúde em Debate' launches its special 'Christmas' issue HIV/AIDS care policies and practices: interdisciplinary dialogues, taking the opportunity to wish its collaborators (reviewers, editors, authors, revisers and translators) a 2023 with renewed hopes and full of Universal, Comprehensive, Equitable and Democratic Health. And here's to more editorial achievements!

Excerpts from the Presentation of the special issue signed by the scientific editors: “The publication we have in our hands resulted from the meeting of a group of researchers and health professionals from various teaching and research institutions with the objective of knowing, gathering, and making visible academic research and analysis of experiences on HIV/AIDS care in the current context. [...] we thought of a set of questions that we hoped to address through the publication of this issue: What is care in HIV/AIDS? In what spaces is care produced? Which actors are part of this construct? How has HIV/AIDS care been produced in different Brazilian contexts? How does it relate to people’s access to health networks and services? What social markers and axes of analysis are important in an analysis of care in HIV/AIDS? (Gender? Sexual identity and orientation? Class? Color/race/ethnicity? Religion? Age? Body? Sexuality? Technology? Management? Work processes? Others?) What/how do policies entail HIV/AIDS care? How do the experiences of people/subjects/individuals/users/patients articulate themselves in these threads? [...] It is appropriate to register that we started the production of this thematic issue in a moment of threat to democracy and science, and that this project, with all the developments it has had, including the production of this collection, has fed us and contributed to our daily resistances for many times. We finalize the process after the presidential elections that elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of the Republic, and in this current conjuncture we place hope and expectations for more investments in the health area, in the resumption of the participation of organized civil society, in the resources for universities, in the production of knowledge driven to the reconstruction and resumption of the sanitary reform project. To publish it in the journal of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (CEBES) is, for us, a reason for immense joy.”

Topics addressed: primary and specialized care in a context of decentralization of services for HIV/AIDS; People Living With HIV/AIDS in Primary Health Care in the city of Rio de Janeiro; AIDS and prevention: social projects with young people in Rio de Janeiro; Sexuality, sociability, work, and HIV prevention among vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic; suffering of women living with HIV; men with homosexual practices and HIV prevention in the Recife Metropolitan Region; sisterhood among travestis e and transgender women in accessing health care and HIV prevention; Sexual politics and HIV/AIDS activism: the experience of Loka de Efavirenz; Young women born with HIV: communication of seropositivity to partners; Frontline health professionals’ perceptions about HIV and youth; : questioning the discourses in the offer of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP); Post-sexual Exposure Prophylaxis in the Unified Health System: possible cares in HIV prevention; instrument to assess the care for prisoners living with HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS care policies and practices; prevention in the 5th decade of the epidemic; Biopolitical government of AIDS: the homosexuality as a social dangerousness; children and young people living with HIV/AIDS; Chronicity of living with HIV/AIDS in childhood, adolescence, and youth; Reports on a book with situations of stigma/discrimination of People Living With HIV/AIDS in Brazil; HIV/AIDS Policies, Activism, and Anthropology: A talk with Richard Parker.

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