Ulla Pape - The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia

The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia

This book studies the role of civil society organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia. It looks at how Russias HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a serious social, economic and political problem, and how according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Russia is currently facing the biggest HIV/AIDS epidemic in all of Europe with an estimated number of 980,000 people living with HIV in 2009. The book investigates the contribution of civil society organisations to social change and civil society development in post-Soviet Russia, and thus situates a specific type of civil society actors into a broader socio-political context and questions their ability to represent civic interests, particularly in the field of social policy-making and health. This allows for a better understanding of the dynamics of state-society relations in present-day Russia, and gives insight into the ways HIV/AIDS NGOs in Russia have used transnational ties in order to exert influence on domestic policy-making in the field of HIV/AIDS.

Ulla Pape is scientific staff member at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies Series editor:

Richard Sakwa

Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Editorial Committee:

Roy Allison, St Antonys College, Oxford

Birgit Beumers, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth

Richard Connolly, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

Peter Duncan, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Zoe Knox, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester

Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath

David Moon, Department of History, University of York

Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester

Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Birmingham

Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow

Founding Editorial Committee Member:

George Blazyca

Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley

This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.

1 Ukraines Foreign and Security Policy, 19912000

Roman Wolczuk

2 Political Parties in the Russian Regions

Derek S. Hutcheson

3 Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation

Edited by Simon Smith

4 Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

J.C. Sharman

5 Political Elites and the New Russia

Anton Steen

6 Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness

Sarah Hudspith

7 Performing Russia Folk Revival and Russian Identity

Laura J. Olson

8 Russian Transformations

Edited by Leo McCann

9 Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin

The baton and sickle

Edited by Neil Edmunds

10 State Building in Ukraine

The Ukranian parliament, 19902003

Sarah Whitmore

11 Defending Human Rights in Russia

Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 19692003

Emma Gilligan

12 Small-Town Russia

Postcommunist livelihoods and identities: a portrait of the intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 19992000 Anne White

13 Russian Society and the Orthodox Church

Religion in Russia after Communism

Zoe Knox

14 Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age

The word as image

Stephen Hutchings

15 Between Stalin and Hitler

Class war and race war on the Dvina, 194046

Geoffrey Swain

16 Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe

The Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction of the changes 198898

Rajendra A. Chitnis

17 The Legacy of Soviet Dissent

Dissidents, democratisation and radical nationalism in Russia

Robert Horvath

18 Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 19002001

Screening the word

Edited by Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski

19 Russia as a Great Power

Dimensions of security under Putin

Edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg and Christer Pursiainen

20 Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940

Truth, justice and memory

George Sanford

21 Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia

Philip Boobbyer

22 The Limits of Russian Democratisation

Emergency powers and states of emergency

Alexander N. Domrin

23 The Dilemmas of Destalinisation

A social and cultural history of reform in the Khrushchev era

Edited by Polly Jones

24 News Media and Power in Russia

Olessia Koltsova

25 Post-Soviet Civil Society

Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

Anders Uhlin

26 The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland

Jacqueline Hayden

27 Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia

Sarah Oates

28 Russian Constitutionalism

Historical and contemporary development

Andrey N. Medushevsky

29 Late Stalinist Russia

Society between reconstruction and reinvention

Edited by Juliane Fst

30 The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia

Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade and Evgenij Bondarchuk

31 Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 192040

From Red Square to the Left Bank

Ludmila Stern

32 The Germans of the Soviet Union

Irina Mukhina

33 Re-constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

The Donbas in transition

Edited by Adam Swain

34 Chechnya Russias War on Terror

John Russell

35 The New Right in the New Europe

Czech transformation and right-wing politics, 19892006

Sen Hanley

36 Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe

Edited by Alexander Wll and Harald Wydra

37 Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union

Russias power, oligarchs profits and Ukraines missing energy policy, 19952006

Margarita M. Balmaceda

38 Peopling the Russian Periphery

Borderland colonization in Eurasian history

Edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader and Willard Sunderland

39 Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

Criminal justice, politics and the public sphere

Frances Nethercott

40 Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia

Axel Kaehne

41 The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party

Atsushi Ogushi

42 Russian Policy towards China and Japan

The Eltsin and Putin periods

Natasha Kuhrt