[citation needed] During Temporão's term he launched a national awareness campaign about the risk of HIV infection among the members of the LGBT community.

During the 1st National LGBT Conference, he announced that he would support an ordinance allowing sex reassignment surgery to be performed by the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), Brazil's public health system.

On 10 October 2008, it was announced that SUS would be authorized, starting in 2009, to distribute Raltegravir, an antiretroviral drug for people with HIV who have developed multidrug resistance to common treatments.

[citation needed] After declaring that the National Health Foundation is corrupt, Temporão came into conflict with members of his own party in the Congress.

The president of the foundation is Danilo Forte, which is affiliated with Henrique Eduardo Alves, leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party in the Lower House.