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This article aims to analyze the influence of macro and micropolitical aspects on the organization and work process of Nasf. This is a scoping review, conducted in June 2020, in the Lilacs and Medline databases. It was found that issues related to infrastructure, Nasf work management, training for SUS, relationship between teams and characteristics of Nasf professionals influence the organization and work process of Nasf, attesting the occurrence of a higher number challenges rather than the potential for this process. It is noteworthy that crossings marked by the current conjuncture can strongly reflect on the work of these teams. There is a need to implement strategies to address the obstacles unveiled by this study, such as the creation of permanent education spaces in the daily lives of teams, the establishment of co-management tools, and the encouragement of initiatives that foster integration teaching-service-community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper seeks to analyze the limits of the concept of empowerment within HIV/Aids prevention among young gay and bisexual men in Brazil. It uses propositions of an official document of the Ministry of Health of Brazil, in form of a methodological handbook for prevention. It employs empowerment as the main theoretical and methodological tool to conduct prevention actions in this population, and the text develops a conceptual discussion on the possibilities for its implementation. The analysis draws on the post-structuralist framework to examine the ways through which the concept is described and used in the activities that are suggested by the manual. The analyses indicate that empowerment is a strategy that functions within a wide rationality of government of bodies and autonomies of the targeted individuals through their insertion in communities, for the concept becomes a technology of regulation of sexual practices and countable measurement of subjectivity. The analyses also explore notions of risk and accountability which circumscribe the community of young gay and bisexual men. Finally, the analyses underline the impasses that may be generated by the insertion of empowerment within the Brazilian HIV/Aids activism without previous critical review of the ways it is conceived and used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]