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The Politics of Global AIDS

Institutionalization of Solidarity, Exclusion of Context

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Authors:
  1. Hakan Seckinelgin

    1. Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political, London, United Kingdom

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  • Develops a new conceptual framework for understanding the international policy response to HIV
  • Provides in-depth critical analysis of the role and impact of key international organizations in the HIV epidemic so far Offers an innovative analysis based on ongoing research in multi-country contexts
  • Links the global and the local in thinking about HIV

Part of the book series: Social Aspects of HIV (SHIV, volume 3)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 1-15

  3. Pathways to the Politics of Global AIDS and the Meanings of AIDS

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 17-33

  4. The Institutionalization of Global AIDS and the Creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 35-58

  5. Civil Society and Solidarity in the Politics of Global AIDS

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 59-83

  6. Global AIDS and the Politics of Knowledge

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 85-103

  7. Evidence-Based Policy: Randomised Controlled Trials’ Knowledge Claims to AIDS Policy

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 105-124

  8. Context Matters! But Why?

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 125-146

  9. Conclusion: Emergency, Sustainability and Success

    • Hakan Seckinelgin
    Pages 147-164

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-176
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About this book

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time. It raises important questions about who benefits, who decides, and in whose interests decisions are made. Taking the early international response to the epidemic as its starting point, and focusing on the work of agencies such as UNAIDS, it identifies two logics underpinning strategy to date. First, the idea of HIV as a ‘global emergency’ which calls for an extraordinary response.  Second, the claim that medicine offers the best way of dealing with it. The book also identified the rise of something more dominant â€“ namely Global AIDS – or the logic and system that seeks to displace all others. Promulgated by UNAIDS and its partner agencies, Global AIDS claims to speak the truth on behalf of affected persons and communities everywhere.  Founded on solidarity claims concerning the international HIV movement, and distinctive knowledge practices which determine what needs to be done. Alternative views about the nature of the epidemic or the best response are rejected as irrelevant for falling outside the master framing of the epidemic that Global AIDS provides. But to what extent is this biomedical and emergency framing of the epidemic sustainable, and to what extent does it speak to the sustainability of lives as affected people wish them to be lived?  Does scientific and biomedical advance provide all the answers, or do important social and political issues need to be addressed?  This book provides an innovative framework with which to think about these and other sustainability challenges for the future.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political, London, United Kingdom

    Hakan Seckinelgin

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