ABSTRACT
The defense of human rights and dignity led the Brazilian AIDS movement and eventually its governmental AIDS programs to place the HIV-positive individual at the center of their strategy; from there, Brazil could resist successfully the World Bank's pressure to work solely on preventing HIV transmission in lieu of treating those already infected. The AIDS world's focus on rights and all forms of social inequality, including gender-based inequity, led naturally to a gradual increase in the attention paid to the impact of the subordination of women on their HIV infection rates and the caretaking burdens placed upon women by the AIDS epidemic. The illuminating analyses of South African labor migration and its effects on masculinity, sexual practices and risk might provide a useful roadmap on how gender issues in the heart of the developed world are driving the HIV epidemic, and not just among immigrants.
