AIDS Drugs For All

Ethan B. Kapstein is Arizona Centennial Professor of International Affairs at the McCain Institute of International Leadership, Arizona State University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC. A former naval officer and international banker, Kapstein is the author or editor of ten books and scores of professional articles including The Fate of Young Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Joshua W. Busby is an Assistant Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is also the Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He has published widely on social movements, global health, climate change and US foreign policy, including Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

• 1. Introduction: global markets and transnational social movements; Appendix A. A brief history of AIDS and the AIDS treatment movement; Appendix B. Key dates; 2. Industry structure and movement opportunities; 3. Drugs = life: framing access to AIDS drugs; 4. Movement coherence and mobilization; 5. Advocacy strategies to address costs; 6. Institutions to stabilize the market; 7. Lessons for other campaigns; 8. Conclusions: implications for research and policy.

'One of the most profound social movements of our time was the one that pitted people with AIDS against Fortune 500 drug companies, fighting to push treatments through the R&D pipeline, and then bring their prices down to levels affordable for the entire world. Kapstein and Busby tell the saga, and offer powerful insights into why this battle was won for AIDS, but not for other global health issues. Bravo!' Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations