Qureshi AIDS in Pakistan

Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-10-6220-9
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 217 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs. In the early 2000s, Pakistan’s response to HIV/AIDS was scaled-up and declared an area of urgent intervention. This response was funded by international donors requiring prevention, care and support services to be contracted out to NGOs - a global policy considered particularly important in Pakistan where the high risk populations are criminalized by the state.  Based on unparalleled ethnographic access to government bureaucracies and their dealings with NGOs, Qureshi examines how global policies were translated by local actors and how they responded to the evolving HIV/AIDS crisis.  The book encourages readers to reconsider the orthodoxy of policies regarding public-private partnership by critiquing the resulting changes in the bureaucracy, civil society and public goods. It is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners concernedwith neoliberal agendas in global health and development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qureshi, Ayaz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Chapter 1: AIDS in the Islamic Republic.- Chapter 2: The HIV prevention market.- Chapter 3: Enterprising bureaucrats.- Chapter 4: Surviving hard times.- Chapter 5: Participating in the Global Fund.- Chapter 6: Responsibility for care and support.- Chapter 7: AIDS activism.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ayaz Qureshi studied Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and is an Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He has research interests in sexual and reproductive health, policy and neoliberalization.