The SUS – Brazilian public health system – is anchored in the principles of universality, equity, integrality and participation of society in the formulation and control of public health policies. The Popular Education and Health favors popular participation of different social groups and development of mechanisms for listening to apprehend their demands and opinions about the health services. This paper present different forms of popular participation by social movement of prostitutes and their engagement in the struggle for the right to health, in order to uncover contributions that social group adds to the reflection on the strengths and difficulties of develop a participatory management in the SUS.
Popular education; Popular participation; Prostitutes