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AIDS in Pakistan

Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs

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  1. Ayaz Qureshi

    1. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

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  • Draws on uniquely intimate ethnography from long-term participant observation in the government’s HIV/AIDS bureaucracy, the offices of NGOs, donor organizations, antiretroviral therapy and counselling centres

  • Provides an accessible and succinct overview of global health and development

  • Timely analysis that will also be of interest to HIV/AIDS specialists working in departments of health, NGOs, activists, and freelance researchers of health programmes

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 1-32

  3. AIDS in the Islamic Republic

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 33-58

  4. The HIV Prevention Market

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 59-84

  5. Enterprising Bureaucrats

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 85-103

  6. Surviving Hard Times

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 105-123

  7. Participating in the Global Fund

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 125-150

  8. Responsibility for Care and Support

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 151-172

  9. AIDS Activism and ‘Civil Society’

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 173-196

  10. Conclusion

    • Ayaz Qureshi
    Pages 197-211

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-217
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About this book

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 concerned with neoliberal agendas in global health and development. 

Reviews

“This ethnography has valuable insights for practitioners and academics, and it raises interesting comparisons for the rise and demise of other global health or development initiatives in Pakistan. … Qureshi's book will have wider resonance for studies of sexuality, law, public health, government, development, democracy and societal change in the Islamic Republic, and it deserves to be read widely.” (Nichola Khan, Bloomsbury Pakistan, April 10, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Ayaz Qureshi

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: AIDS in Pakistan

  • Book Subtitle: Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs

  • Authors: Ayaz Qureshi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6220-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6219-3Published: 27 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4830-3Published: 26 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6220-9Published: 17 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 217

  • Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Medical Anthropology, Health Administration, Development and Health

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