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Seeking to further enhance care for immunosuppressed HIV / AIDS patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a way to evaluate their quality of life. As HIV / AIDS is a chronic disease, and with the introduction of drugs in 1986, the expectancy of life of those patients increased over the years and the health care professionals started to give more attention to the quality of life those patients could have. A new quality of life assessment, the WHOQOL-100, was then developed and has a wide approach, being used for HIV / AIDS patients with questions regarding physical capacity, psychological, independence, social relationships, environment and spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1950s, modern architecture became one of the most compelling and widely circulated, if controversial, symbols of industrial and cultural progress in Brazil. Such architects as Oscar Niemeyer and Affonso Reidy were both celebrated and reviled by specialists in the developed world for the liberties they took reconfiguring European architectural conventions for their tropical conditions. Two particular cases emanating from Rio de Janeiro – Reidy's design for the Museu de Arte Moderna and Niemeyer's journal Módulo – highlight how Brazilians engaged with this polemical discourse and disseminated their works of tropical modernism to foreign audiences. Through these and other examples, this article also points to ways in which Brazilians were complicit in the exoticization of their own country, deploying rhetoric about the tropics when it was advantageous and condemning it when it was not. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]