1st Edition

HIV Scale-Up and the Politics of Global Health

Edited By Nora Kenworthy, Richard Parker Copyright 2015
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV "scale-up") and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe. This book draws on interdisciplinary research from numerous sites in the Global South to examine the political dimensions of HIV and global health programming. The chapters reflect extensive... Read more

1. Introduction: HIV scale-up and the politics of global health Nora J. Kenworthy and Richard Parker

2. ‘All they do is pray’: Community labour and the narrowing of ‘care’ during Mozambique’s HIV scale-up Ippolytos Kalofonos

3. Participation, decentralisation and déjà vu: Remaking democracy in response to AIDS? Nora J. Kenworthy

4. Elusive accountabilities in the HIV scale-up: ‘Ownership’ as a functional tautology Daniel E. Esser

5. Evidence and AIDS activism: HIV scale-up and the contemporary politics of knowledge in global public health Christopher J. Colvin

6. Up-scaling expectations among Pakistan’s HIV bureaucrats: Entrepreneurs of the self and job precariousness post-scale-up Ayaz Qureshi

7. HIV testing as prevention among MSM in China: The business of scaling-up Elsa L. Fan

8. Bringing the state back in: Understanding and validating measures of governments’ political commitment to HIV Radhika J. Gore, Ashley M. Fox, Allison B. Goldberg and Till Bärnighausen

9. ‘Low-hanging fruit’: Counting and accounting for children in PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa Lindsey J. Reynolds

10. Towards the embodiment of biosocial resistance? How to account for the unexpected effects of antiretroviral scale-up in the Central African Republic Pierre-Marie David

11. Meaningful change or more of the same? The Global Fund’s new funding model and the politics of HIV scale-up Anuj Kapilashrami and Johanna Hanefeld

12. After the Global Fund: Who can sustain the HIV/AIDS response in Peru and how? Ana B. Amaya, Carlos F. Caceres, Neil Spicer and Dina Balabanova

13. Confronting ‘scale-down’: Assessing Namibia’s human resource strategies in the context of decreased HIV/AIDS funding Liita-Iyaloo Cairney and Anuj Kapilashrami

14. HIV scale-up in Mozambique: Exceptionalism, normalisation and global health Erling Høg

15. AIDS policy responsiveness in Africa: Evidence from opinion surveys Ashley M. Fox

Biography

Dr. Nora Kenworthy is an interdisciplinary researcher in public health, political science, and anthropology. Her work focuses on intersecting social and political factors in global health. She is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, USA.

Dr. Richard Parker is a pioneer scholar of structural and political-economic factors shaping HIV/AIDS globally and the politics of HIV and global health policy. He is currently Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Health at Columbia University, USA.