The political tragedy during the Covid-19 pandemic and the health movement resistance in Brazil

By Centro Brasileiro de Estudos da Saúde (Cebes) - Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes)

This case study aims to explore the resistance of civil society organizations and social movement in Brazil throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing especially in the creation and development of the Front for Life (Frente pela Vida - FpV), an alliance of different organizations and movements from the broader health movement in Brazil. The mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic response by the Brazilian federal government claimed over 700.000 lives and made the country to have one of the worst responses in the world. Besides that, major disruptions in the political landscape threatened democracy. Since the beginning Brazilian society resisted in different ways. The case study shows the experience of the Front for Life, since its creation in 2020 with virtual March for Life until the Free, Democratic and Popular Conference in 2022, months before Brazil’s presidential elections. The paper discusses how the Front meant an effort of the traditional Sanitary Movement in Brazil and offer a few perspectives for the key challenges for realizing Right to Health, deepened by Covid-19 pandemic. 
 

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