Global Health Governance and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

GILBERTO CALCAGNOTTO is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin-American Studies, Hamburg, Germany. CHRISTIAN VON SOEST is Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg, Germany. MARTIN WEINEL is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff University, UK, and Lecturer at the Institute of African Affairs at the University of Leipzig, Germany. JAN PETER WOGART is Senior Research Associate at GIGA, Hamburg, Germany, and Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, Germany.

The devastating effects of HIV/AIDS have propelled a multiplicity of activities at global, national and local level. This book is based on in-depth studies of the major global institutions in health, the role of pharmaceutical corporations, the functions of NGOs, and national responses to HIV/AIDS in two key case studies: Brazil and South Africa.The devastating effects of HIV/AIDS have propelled a multiplicity of activities at global, national and local level. This book is based on in-depth studies of the major global institutions in health, the role of pharmaceutical corporations, the functions of NGOs, and national responses to HIV/AIDS in two key case studies: Brazil and South Africa.