HIV Scale-Up and the Politics of Global Health

Dr. Nora Kenworthy is an interdisciplinary researcher in public health, political science, and anthropology. Her work focuses on intersecting social and political factors in global health. She is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, USA. Dr. Richard Parker is a pioneer scholar of structural and political-economic factors shaping HIV/AIDS globally and the politics of HIV and global health policy. He is currently Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Health at Columbia University, USA.

• 1. Introduction: HIV scale-up and the politics of global health 2. ‘All they do is pray’: Community labour and the narrowing of ‘care’ during Mozambique’s HIV scale-up 3. Participation, decentralisation and déjà vu: Remaking democracy in response to AIDS? 4. Elusive accountabilities in the HIV scale-up: ‘Ownership’ as a functional tautology 5. Evidence and AIDS activism: HIV scale-up and the contemporary politics of knowledge in global public health 6. Up-scaling expectations among Pakistan’s HIV bureaucrats: Entrepreneurs of the self and job precariousness post-scale-up 7. HIV testing as prevention among MSM in China: The business of scaling-up 8. Bringing the state back in: Understanding and validating measures of governments’ political commitment to HIV 9. ‘Low-hanging fruit’: Counting and accounting for children in PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa 10. Towards the embodiment of biosocial resistance? How to account for the unexpected effects of antiretroviral scale-up in the Central African Republic 11. Meaningful change or more of the same? The Global Fund’s new funding model and the politics of HIV scale-up 12. After the Global Fund: Who can sustain the HIV/AIDS response in Peru and how? 13. Confronting ‘scale-down’: Assessing Namibia’s human resource strategies in the context of decreased HIV/AIDS funding 14. HIV scale-up in Mozambique: Exceptionalism, normalisation and global health 15. AIDS policy responsiveness in Africa: Evidence from opinion surveys