Partilhando uma vida de cão: políticas públicas e a leishmaniose visceral canina

Abstract

This paper brings some introductory lines to analyze public policies forCanine Visceral Leishmaniasis. Based on the case of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, we triedto show that there is a silencing of canine suffering in the evidence that public policiesfor Leishmaniasis start to be constituted only when the disease threatens human lives.Likewise, we show how policies of coexistence are produced and experienced muchmore by civil initiatives - almost always marginalized and even against public policies thought and executed by the government, when certain populations of dogs and humans are neglected by the public power.