MAJ-LIS FOLLÉR is Associate Professor in Latin American Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently working with AIDS related research in Brazil, with a focus on AIDS policy, civil society and race issues. HÅKAN THÖRN is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His recent publications include Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society, Global Civil Society: More or Less Democracy? (co-edited) and No Name Fever: AIDS in the Age of Globalization (co-edited with Maj-Lis Follér).