Title Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (201 p.) Series Routledge Studies in African Development Ser Routledge Studies in African Development Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From intimacy to politics: AIDS in Africa as a moving object -- From intimate subjects to public policy object: a journey through AIDS -- Problematising public action in Africa from the response to a pandemic -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 The international policy response to AIDS in Africa (1986-1996): Empirical bases, theoretical tools The gradual construction of a theoretical framework to describe and analyse the international response to AIDS in Africa -- The construction of a comparative analysis of AIDS public policy in Africa -- International frameworks or national convergences? International guidelines and Africa's national AIDS programs (PNLS/NAC) -- Public policy in Africa: an epistemological prelude -- From public policy instruments to instrumental public policy: theoretical elements and hypotheses -- Access to ARVs in Africa: from the restructuring of the PNLS/NAC to a "therapeutic revolution"? -- Notes -- References Chapter 2 AIDS and governance in Africa: Instruments and instrumentalisation of an international policy -- Intellectual property and the issue of patents -- The international context -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 International comparisons in Africa: Socio-political determinants of access to AIDS drugs -- A typology of "active" political mobilisation against AIDS in Africa -- The "passive adherence" as a particular configuration of AIDS associations -- International issues and strategies around ARV access in Cameroon -- Notes -- References Chapter 4 Socio-political determinants of access to AIDS drugs in Africa: A paradigm shift -- Towards a definition of the State in Africa: preamble -- Public action and the State: who governs? -- Reconfiguring biomedical oligarchies at the core of transnational public policy networks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 From policies to politics: Policy before the onslaught of politics -- NGOs and associations against AIDS in Africa and South: a transnational issue -- Conclusion: Towards a trans-sectorial convergence of public policy in Africa? -- Notes -- References Chapter 6 Towards a matrix of public action in Africa: Univocal normativity and plural interests -- The ambiguous standardisation of international health action in Africa: a diachronic and multi-sectoral reading -- Malaria and tuberculosis: clash in the time of AIDS -- Education and the environment: contrasting illustrations of the production of standards for transnational public action? -- The construction of a new social tie: transnational, differentiated, and flawed -- A political anticipation: the Covid-19 reference laboratories in Africa and epidemiological surveillance -- Notes Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography References Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Africa Medical policy -- Africa AIDS (Disease) -- Africa -- International cooperation AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy AIDS (Disease) -- International cooperation Medical policy Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 1000215881 9781000215885

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