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This article examines the role of civil society in shaping HIV and AIDS policies and programs in Brazil. It focuses on the historical context of the re-democratization of Brazilian society during the 1980s, when the initial response to the epidemic took shape, and emphasizes the role of social movements linked to the progressive Catholic Church, the sanitary reform movement in public health, and the emerging gay rights movement in the early response to the epidemic in Brazil. It highlights the broad-based civil society coalition that took shape over the course of the 1990s, and the political alliances that were built up shortly after the 1996 International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in order to pass legislation guaranteeing the right to antiretroviral treatment access. It emphasizes the continued importance of civil society organizations – in particular, AIDS-related NGOS – and leading AIDS activists in exerting continued pressure in order to guarantee the sustainability of treatment access, and the impact that action focused on HIV and AIDS has had on the Brazilian public health system more broadly, particularly through strengthening health infrastructures and providing a model for health-related social mobilization more broadly.

1. Male sex work : current characteristics and recent transformations / Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker -- 2. Lifestyle, work or easy money? : male sex work in the Netherlands today / Marieke Ridder-Wiskerke and Peter Aggleton -- 3. Surfing liquid modernity : Albanian and Romanian male sex workers in Europe / Nicola Mai -- 4. Sex work at a crossroads : men who sell sex to men in Macedonia / Dan Allman and Borche Bozhinov -- 5. 'Straight' rent boys and gays who sell sex in Istanbul / Cenk ezbay -- 6. Economies of masculinity : male sex work in urban Brazil / Gregory Mitchell -- 7. Between the casa and the calle : Dominican male sex workers serving a tourist clientele / Mark B. Padilla -- 8. Men who sell sex in Peru : evolving technology and sexual cultures / Carlos F. Caceres. [et al.] -- 9. Sexual-economic transactions among men who have sex with men in Africa / Tsitsi B. Masvawure and Theo Sandfort -- 10. 'Cape Town is free' : reflections on male sex work in Cape Town, South Africa / Marlise Richter and Gordon Isaacs -- 11. Sexual life histories of male sex workers in south India : emotional, erotic, and economic dimensions / Robert Lorway. [et al.] -- 12 Male sex work in urban Pakistan : experiences from Lahore and Karachi / Jan Willem De Lind Van Wijngaarden and Qasim Iqbal -- 13. 'Moving on up' : making sense of male sex work in Thailand / Jan Willem de Lind van Wijngaarden -- 14. Male escorts in Australia / John Scott, Victor Minichiello and Joni Meenagh -- 15. Positive marginality and stigma resistance among gay and bisexual male escorts in the USA / Juline A. Koken, David S. Bimbi and Jeffrey T. Parsons -- 16. The cash nexus : money, worth and price for men who sell sex to men in the UK / Allan Tyler -- 17. His story : the commodification of men's same-sex sexuality in Canada / Dan Allman -- 18. Male sex work in China / Tong Ge, Zhen Li and Peter Aggleton.

"That health has many social determinants is established and a myriad of structural factors are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including individual and population vulnerability to infection with HIV and AIDS, injury-prevention, obesity, and smoking cessation. Recognising the inadequacy of public health responses that focus solely on individual behavior change to improve population health outcomes, this textbook promotes a more holistic approach. Discussing the structural factors related to health and well-being that are both within and outside of an individual's control, it explores what form structural approaches can take, the underlying theory of structure as a risk factor and the local realities, environments, and priorities that public health practitioners need to take into consideration. Anchored in empirical evidence, the book provides case studies of innovative and influential interventions - from transfat bans and the 100% condom program to the provision of adequate clean drinking water and sanitation systems - and concludes with a section on implementing and evaluating structural public health programs. This comprehensive handbook brings together a selection of internationally-recognised authors to provide an overview for students and practitioners working in or concerned with public health around the globe"--Provided by publisher

pt. 1. The transition from international health to global health -- pt. 2. Structural inequalities and global public health -- pt. 3. Ecological transformation and environmental health in the global system -- pt. 4. Population and reproductive health -- pt. 5. Conflict, violence, and emergencies in global public health -- pt. 6. Global public health policy and practice -- pt. 7. Global public health and development -- pt. 8. Global mental health -- pt. 9. Global access to essential medicines -- pt. 10. Health systems, health capacity, and the politics of global public health.