AIDS in Pakistan

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AIDS in Pakistan

Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs

Development studies Anthropology Public health and preventive medicine Medical administration and management Human biology

Author: Ayaz Qureshi

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Collection: Medicine

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 17th October 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 413 Kb

ISBN: 9789811062209


Overview

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.

Research and Analysis

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.

Implications and Audience

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.

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