Reflections on afrobioethics and modes of care in collective health

Abstract

This article aims to develop reflections on the civilizatory perspective of African matrix and the modes of collective health care from the concept of Afrobioethics. This is an experience report, whose reflections are based on Afrocentric assumptions in dialogue with concepts of Bioethics and Collective Health, linked to reports experienced in a Traditional Terreiro Community and in a Primary Health Care Unit (BHU) of the Health Care Network (RAS) of Porto Alegre. The terreiro's care expresses the principles of collective health in their practices, so that it is evidenced, from the afrobioethical, an epistemological proposal that causes its introjection and application in SUS.