Public Policies and Invisible Bodies in the Field of Health Practices

This experience report within the scope of professional practices intends to explore possibilities of access of travestis who work in street prostitution to health services aimed at HIV/AIDS prevention strategies. The narratives that make up these writing-experiences describe situations of precariousness and marginalization that make such bodies invisible regarding access to public policies, fundamentally those of health. The meetings with the travestis occurred by interventions in the territories of sociability under strategies and actions regarding HIV/AIDS carried out by a Civil Society Organization (CSO) that operates in health prevention, and research conducted from 2016 to 2018 in social psychology. The analysis of this experience report follows a post-structuralist reading in dialogue with counter-colonial thought, in which the modes of subjectivation are constituted in the games of knowledge/power relations as effects of colonial politics. The narratives from this writing-experience expose situations of violence and unprotection that engender conditions of invisibility of these bodies concerning access to policies as a right.

Keywords:
Transvestites; Transgender Women; HIV/AIDS Prevention