Consubstantialities of resistance: Labor process, (bio)materialities, and pathogenicity.

As social science scholarship has historically documented, social structure and clinical practice are more commonly as contradictory or incoherent as they are often framed. The increasing emphasis on the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has drawn attention to how social realms of resistance are entrenched and interconnected through varied structural, political, clinical, biological, and ecological relations. In this study, set in São Paulo, Brazil, I sought to unpack relational consubstantialities of AMR within the healthcare labor process and their enfolded (bio)materialities and pathogenicity by drawing on a series of interviews with primary care-based health professionals, health services managers, and policymakers, completed between late 2021 and early 2023.

The governance of antimicrobial resistance in Brazil: Challenges for developing and implementing a one health agenda.

This article explores stakeholders' perceptions of the challenges for developing a One Health agenda to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Brazil, including the development and implementation of the Brazilian National Action Plan (BR-NAP). The data originate from 27 interviews conducted with human, environmental, and animal health stakeholders, including academics, managers, and policymakers involved in developing the BR-NAP. Through thematic analysis, we identified three interconnected themes: governance, the health system, and technical and scientific challenges.

Coping with in-locus factors and systemic contradictions affecting antibiotic prescription and dispensing practices in primary care-A qualitative One Health study in Brazil.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing threat to global health. The risks and sanitary consequences of AMR are disproportionately experienced by those living in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). While addressing antibiotic use has largely been documented in hospital settings, the understanding of social drivers affecting antibiotic prescribing and dispensing practices in the context of human and animal health in primary care (PC) in LMICs remains extremely limited.

Othering discourse and stigma amidst the identity formation process among gays, bisexuals and other men who have sex with men on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

With the global emergence of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), questions have emerged on which ways the social identity formation process among gays, bisexuals and other men who have sex with men on PrEP arise and constitute beyond exclusive sexual orientation expressions. We conducted a content analysis with thematic categories in a PrEP online group guided by group-web affiliation and individualization approaches. Individuals identify themselves as PrEPsters as part of a PrEP club, while dealing with conflicts on serosorting sexual partners and stigmatizing reactions towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH).