AIDS no Brasil: uma análise das publicações da revista Veja e do jornal Tribuna da Imprensa entre os anos de 1982 e 1985

Abstract

This graduate thesis aims to analyze and understand the way Veja magazine and Tribuna da Imprensa newspaper disclosed aids to their readers between 1982 and 1985. Both periodicals are located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and made available online. In the early 1980s, an unknown new disease with high mortality rates appeared in the United States and began to attack mainly the homosexual community, so the association between Aids and homosexuality gained strength in both scientific and journalistic circles, being strongly classified as “risk groups”. When it arrived in Brazil, sids was shown on the pages of the periodicals as a deadly and contagious disease, which caused panic and doubts on the population. Our goal is to perceive how aids was presented to readers by understanding the context of the periodicals and their influences among the society, and to perceive and point out the forms of discourse used by editors in the way they have related to their readers. Also to notice the changes that the periodicals started to have in relation to the way they reported aids, and so understand the ruptures that aids caused on the pages of Veja magazine and Tribuna da Imprensa newspaper.