In the early 1980s, Kazuza gave voice to the impulses of a young man who had just left a dictatorial environment and was still fighting for his life in the public fight against AIDS, but it didn’t work. He lost the battle, but wrote his name in history.

Despite the decline in incidence, the disease still kills more black people. There has been an increase in cases among black and brown people, accounting for more than half of the cases since 2015.

Over the past ten years, Santa Catarina has recorded a 30.7% decrease in AIDS mortality, which has increased from 6.5 to 4.5 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants. The state reported 455 deaths with HIV or AIDS as the underlying cause in 2022, a 7.8% decrease from the 494 deaths reported in 2012. Among the country’s capitals, Floripa recorded 9.7 deaths for every 100 thousand inhabitants last year – a rate higher than the national rate. The information is taken from the new epidemiological bulletin on HIV/AIDS presented by the Ministry of Health, which also indicates the AIDS detection rate in Santa Catarina – 25.3 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. The capital had an indicator of 49,