PrEP South America is a qualitative study, based on an ethnographic approach in health, that seeks to understand the experiences of access, use, and management of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in South American countries. Our team is composed of researchers from different fields within the humanities, social sciences, and health sciences, located across all macro-regions of Brazil, as well as in Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia. We hope this initiative contributes to PrEP science in a situated way and promotes a more humanized approach to HIV prevention, both within the context of the Brazilian public health system (SUS) and in other South American countries. This research is funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Brazilian Ministry of Health (Decit/SECTICS/MS and Dathi/SVSA/MS).
AIDS 2026: Confira a participação do PrEP América do Sul
Projeto apresentou três trabalhos científicos durante a 26ª Conferência Internacional de Aids, realizada pela primeira vez na América do Sul O PrEP América do Sul participou
Valentine's Day: How can PrEP be an ally in relationships?
From open relationships to non-monogamy, users of contraception report that prevention is also part of life as a couple. Written by: Thiago Peniche
Injectable PrEP: the challenges to expanding HIV prevention.
Foto: Reprodução/site/ABIA Especialista explica como patentes farmacêuticas podem influenciar o preço e a disponibilidade de novas tecnologias de prevenção, como o lenacapavi
PrEP is for everyone: experiences of use by cis and trans women
“A PrEP é para todo mundo”: experiências de uso da profilaxia pré-exposição (PrEP) para HIV por mulheres cisgênero e transgênero Apesar de a PrEP (profilaxia pré-exposi
Postdoctoral studies in London expand PrEP's international partnerships in South America
Richard Hoggart Building, main building of Goldsmiths. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
A Throwback to Last Year’s Highlights at PrEP South America
By Kris H. Oliveira and Thiago Peniche The research project “Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in South America: ethnography of access experiences
PrEP and cisgender women: Interview with Thaís Naves
PrEP and cisgender women: Interview with Thaís Naves. World AIDS Day, commemorated every December 1st, is an invitation to broaden the conversation about HIV prevention.
PrEP South America at the 14th Abrascão and the 12th ABETH Congress
PrEP South America at the 14th Abrascão and the 12th ABETH Congress By: Thiago Peniche and Kris H. Oliveira Researchers from the PrEP South America project participated
ABIA Bulletin No. 68 denounces: without social justice and addressing inequalities, the promise of PrEP will not be fulfilled.
By: Talita Martins (talita@agenciaaids.com.br) / Agência Aids The afternoon was tense in Rio de Janeiro — sirens, blocked streets, the city center emptied by yet another operation.
Reading Group “Scientific Practice in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence”
Scientific Practice in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Kris H. Oliveira During September 2025, the PrEP South America project promoted a reading group on the
Memory and identity in HIV/AIDS activism in Paraíba
Memory and Identity in HIV/AIDS Activism in Paraíba By: Thiago Peniche Interviewee: Maio Spellman Supervision: Kris H. Oliveira In more than three decades of confronting
PrEP in Natal-RN, as told by anthropologist Fernando Joaquim da Silva Junior.
By Thiago Peniche, Fernando Joaquim da Silva Junior and Kris H. Oliveira On June 27, 2025, anthropologist Fernando Joaquim da Silva Junior defended his doctoral thesis.
PrEP South America at CLACSO 2025
PrEP South America at CLACSO 2025: an unprecedented mapping of HIV prevention policies in the region. By: Thiago Peniche. Reporting from Bogotá, Colombia, the PrEP America project.
PrEP América do Sul na Semana de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação para o SUS
Por: Thiago Peniche O projeto PrEP América do Sul foi destaque na abertura da Semana Nacional de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação para o SUS, realizada de 2 a 5 de
Revista Áskesis entrevista coordenadores do PrEP América do Sul
Por Thiago Peniche e Kris H. Oliveira André Machado e Kris H. Oliveira compartilham os avanços, desafios e reflexões sobre o projeto de pesquisa multicêntrico em entrevista à
PEPFAR cuts and the impact on South America
By: Thiago Peniche, Luciana Kamel and Kris Herik de Oliveira The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is an initiative of the US government
IMS/UERJ and PrEP South America open registration for HIV/AIDS course
In the first half of 2025, IMS/UERJ and the PrEP South America project will hold the course “HIV/AIDS, new prevention technologies, social responses and neoliberal
A Throwback to Last Year’s Highlights at PrEP South America
By Kris H. Oliveira and Thiago Peniche The research project “Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in South America: ethnography of access experiences
Online conference with Prof. Dr. Richard Parker will discuss the HIV/AIDS pandemic, global health and challenges to health justice
On November 5th, starting at 3 pm (Brasília), Professor Richard Parker, President of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and Professor
PrEP Project South America offers a course in collaboration with UEA and UFAM
Our aim is to offer theoretical, methodological and practical tools for a critical understanding of health phenomena from an anthropological perspective. Furthermore,
Researchers from PrEP South America make their first trip to Bolivia
The Regional Coordinator of the PrEP Project South America, Guilherme Passamani, and the scholarship holder Marco Aurélio Soares, both from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), carry out
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