Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability Count: 20 (Routledge Studies in Globalisation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415485649 ISBN 13: 9780415485647

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become focused upon the health aspect of the epidemic, and financial commitments become subject to aid fatigue. This book examines the roles and influence of multiple actors and initiatives that have come to constitute the global response to the epidemic.

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Synopsis

Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health aspect of the epidemic, and financial commitments become subject to aid fatigue.This book examines the different forms of governance and actors that have emerged in response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. It considers how these actors and structures of governance enhance/limit participation and accountability, and the impact this is having upon effective HIV/AIDS responses across the world. The authors confront what is meant by participation, accountability and governance in this context and how they impact upon every aspect of the HIV/AIDS response. Its purpose is to offer experiences and understandings of governance of HIV/AIDS for both practitioners and academics to structure effective responses to the epidemic.

This book is aimed at both academics and practitioners throughout the world and contributes to the academic debate surrounding global governance, health and development economics, and the work of multiple international organisations and civil society organisations.

About the Author

Sophie Harman is Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London. Previously she was Research Fellow at the CSGR, University of Warwick. She is the founding trustee of 'Trans Tanz', a Tanzanian-based organisation providing transportation to help rural communities affected by HIV/AIDS access healthcare facilities. Franklyn Lisk is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick, UK. Previously he was Professor at the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; founding Director of the ILO Global Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work in Geneva, and ILO Global co-ordinator for UNAIDS. He is the author of Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Responding to an International Crisis (also published by Routledge).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0415485649
• ISBN 13: 9780415485647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Harman Sophie, Lisk Franklyn