1st Edition

The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia

By Ulla Pape Copyright 2014
324 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book studies the role of civil society organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia. It looks at how Russia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a serious social, economic and political problem, and how according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Russia is currently facing the biggest HIV/AIDS epidemic in all of Europe with an estimated number of 980,000 people... Read more

Preface  1. Introduction  2. Civil Society, NGOs and the Russian State  3. Civil Society and the Global Governance of HIV/AIDS  4. Russia’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Government Response  5. HIV/AIDS and Russian Society  6. The Organisational Landscape of HIV/AIDS NGOs in Russia  7. Building Bridges, Creating Trust: HIV/AIDS NGOs in Tomsk  8. Improving Policy and Practice: NGOs in St. Petersburg  9. Advocacy Based on Evidence: HIV/AIDS NGOs in Kaliningrad  10. In the Centre of Russian HIV/AIDS politics: NGOs in Moscow  11. Conclusions

Biography

Ulla Pape is post-doc researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and senior research fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, International Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies.