A dor dos olhos dos outros: a Aids no Jornal do Brasil de junho de 1983 a julho de 1985

Abstract

Media vehicles, including printed newspapers, are characteristically linked to temporality and the society that produced them, and are therefore a means through which these producing agents can be read. Being immersed in their realities, they print on their pages what was on the agenda for their consumers and their editors. In the 1980s, the identification of a new disease in the United States and Europe, which was gradually spreading across the globe, began to gain space in the public interest and, with that, among the newspaper pages, and in this case of Jornal do Brasil. The disease is now known by the acronym AIDS1, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, caused by the HIV virus, human immunodeficiency virus. The disease, when discovered, was associated with sexuality, recovering moralities present in society and, with this, carrying the virus - in addition to its RNA - with stigmas that accompany the views on people with HIV or AIDS until the present time.