AIDS in Pakistan
Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
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Beschreibung
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 withneoliberal agendas in global health and development.
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
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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Ayaz Qureshi
Themen in »AIDS in Pakistan«
HIV/AIDS global health anthropology of bureaucracy medical and political anthropology conservative Islam health activism AIDS activism injecting drug users sex workers new ethnography of aid post-development
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“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)
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