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Thinking Politically about HIV

AIDS has a unique political history. As fears grew of a global pandemic on the scale of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was briefly treated as an issue of high politics in the international arena and generated significant resources for country programmes. That initial commitment is now declining, and if AIDS is to maintain its visibility and contribution to global solidarity, human rights and dignity, its politics will have to evolve to reflect the profound geo-political, economic and social transformations underway today.

This volume brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines who work at the intersection of politics and HIV. They reflect on the lessons learned from the past thirty years of the politics of AIDS and how political science, writ large, can further contribute to the understanding and practice of political mobilization around AIDS. Through case studies and analysis, new insights into identity politics and social movements in countries as diverse as Brazil, Switzerland, Vietnam and Zambia are offered alongside new approaches to understanding the determinants and incentives which generate political will and commitment.

This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics.

Kent Buse, PhD, is a political economist with a focus on health policy analysis. He is currently Chief of Political Affairs and Strategy at UNAIDS. He has taught at Yale University and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has worked with a range of international organizations.

Dennis Altaian is a political scientist who has written a number of key books on sexuality, HIV and AIDS, and Australian politics. He was President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-2005), and a member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society (2004-2012).

"In my experience as Head of India's AIDS programme during its intense phase, and later as Regional Director of UNAIDS in Asia Pacific, I have seen how politics plays a major defining role in AIDS responses in Asia Pacific countries ... As Buse and colleagues outline in this welcome collection, if we want to provide services to men who have sex with men, trans-genders, drug users and sex workers, every decision is a difficult political decision" Dr J. V.R. Prasada Rao, UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for AIDS

"Whenever we have made progress on AIDS it was because of good politics. Whenever there was no progress, it was because of bad politics. This book provides unique analyses on the political forces and power relations that shaped the global AIDS response and provides critical lessons to shape the future" Professor Peter Plot, Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

"A judicious reminder that what is written, said, thought and done about the global AIDS crisis may no longer provide a self-assured basis upon which to construct future policy" Professor Nana Poku, Dean, School of Social and International Studies, Bradford University, UK

"In this outstanding collection of essays, Buse, Altman and colleagues draw lessons from a thirty year struggle and make a timely call for paradigm shift in the global AIDS response" John Ferguson Professorial Chair of African Studies, Bradford University, UK

Thinking Politically about HIV

Edited by
Kent Buse and Dennis Altman

First published 2014
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2014 Taylor & Francis

This book is a reproduction of Contemporary Politics , vol. 18, issue 2. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-415-82554-2

Typeset in Times New Roman
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Publishers Note
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book may be referred to as articles as they are identical to the articles published in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

Thinking politically about HIV: political analysis and action in response to AIDS

Dennis Altman and Kent Base

Nathan A. Paxton

Evan S. Lieberman

Public opinion as leadership disincentive: exploring a governance dilemma in the AIDS response in Africa

Per Strand

Building capacities and producing citizens: the biopolitics of HIV prevention in Brazil

Rafael de la Dehesa and Ananya Mukherjea

Constitution, diversification and normalization of a health problem: organizing the fight against AIDS in Switzerland (19842005)

Michael Voegtli and Olivier Fillieule

AIDS mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam: explaining the differences

Amy S. Patterson and David Stephens

China's evolving AIDS policy: the influence of global norms and transnational non-governmental organizations

Joan Kaufman

Lessons from the rise and fall of the military AIDS hypothesis: politics, evidence and persuasion

Michael O'Keefe

Pieter Fourie and Maj-Lis Foller

The chapters in this book were originally published in Contemporary Politics, volume 18, issue 4 (June 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1
Thinking politically about HIV: political analysis and action in response to AIDS
Dennis Altman and Kent Buse
Contemporary Politics, volume 18, issue 4 (June 2012) pp. 127-140

Chapter 2
Political science(s) and HIV: a critical analysis
Nathan A. Paxton
Contemporary Polities, volume 18, issue 4 (June 2012) pp. 141-155

Chapter 3
Descriptive representation and AIDS policy in South Africa
Evan S. Lieberman
Contemporary Politics , volume 18, issue 4 (June 2012) pp. 156-173

Chapter 4
Public opinion as leadership disincentive: exploring a governance dilemma in the AIDS response in Africa
Per Strand
Contemporary Politics , volume 18, issue 4 (June 2012) pp. 174-185

Chapter 5
Building capacities and producing citizens: the biopolitics of HIV prevention in Brazil
Rafael de la Dehesa and Ananya Mukherjea
Contemporary Politics , volume 18, issue 4 (June 2012) pp. 186-199

Chapter 6
Constitution, diversification and normalization of a health problem: organizing the fight against AIDS in Switzerland (1984-2005)

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