1st Edition

Health on Delivery The Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi

By Anat Rosenthal Copyright 2017
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

In 2004 Malawi began to offer antiretroviral therapy to anyone who needed it. This undertaking would have been ambitious for any nation, but it was unprecedented coming from one of the poorest countries in the world. Health on Delivery examines this introduction of state-provided antiretroviral therapy from an ethnographic perspective. Moving from World Health Organization boardrooms in Geneva... Read more

Introduction

Hierarchies of Emergency: Global Policy and the ART Rollout in Malawi

Stretched Too Thin: Malawi’s National Shortage of Healthcare Workers

Relationship Matters: Patient and Healthcare Provider Experiences in an Antiretroviral Clinic

Reaching Out for Health: Strategies to Improve HIV Care in Village Settings

Conclusion - A Lesson in Healthcare Delivery: How Global Policy Translates into HIV Care, and What We Can Learn From It.

Biography

Anat Rosenthal is a lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management and the Tamar Golan Africa Centre at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. A medical anthropologist, she studies global health policy and healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings.