Knowing, Care, Resisting: Community Learnings and Feminist Collective Action of the Positive Women's Movement in the Face of HIV and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.54549/cs.2025.5.5615Keywords:
social movements, community learning, collective action, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19Abstract
This article analyses how the Positive Women's Movement of Latin America and the Caribbean (MM+) mobilized community learning to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic from a collective health perspective. Based on qualitative research, the study identifies the collective actions led by the movement, pedagogical strategies rooted in popular knowledge, and transformative experiences that enabled women living with HIV to address the health crisis. The MM+ is presented as a paradigmatic case of inter-sectional collective action and feminist resilience. It is concluded that the MM+ constitutes a key experience for rethinking the role of social movements in building health from the bottom up.
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