Between conflict and cooperation: global-national interfaces and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa

Von Soest, Christian, Calcagnotto, Gilberto and Weinel, Martin 2006. Between conflict and cooperation: global-national interfaces and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa. [Working Paper]. GIGA Working Paper, Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...

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Abstract

This paper endeavours to analyse the relationship between Global Health Governance and national health politics in the case of HIV/AIDS. The paper compares Brazil and South Africa as two cases in which the relationship between national politics and GHG has been structured in contrasting ways, ranging from conflict to cooperation. Different reciprocal influences are analysed through the interface concept. A differentiation is made between four kinds of interfaces: resource-transfer, organisational, legal, and discursive. The main finding is that despite a huge variety of global actors operating in the field of HIV/AIDS, national politics and actor constellations account for most of the contrasts between Brazil and South Africa in respect to their fight against HIV/AIDS. In contrast to Brazil, South Africa's HIV/AIDS policy has for a long time been dominated by one central political actor. Until 2003, the central ANC-government was able to push through its strict refusal to provide antiretroviral drugs in the public health system.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Centre for the Study of Knowledge Expertise and Science (KES) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Global Health Governance, HIV, AIDS, Brazil, South Africa, ARVs
Publisher:	German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 08:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73741

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