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31 produkter
Political Economy of AIDS in Africa
Av Nana K. Poku, Alan Whiteside
Häftad, 2006
822 kr
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Sub-Saharan Africa is a region devastated by HIV/AIDS. The extent of the epidemic is only now becoming clear, as increasing numbers of people with HIV are becoming ill. In the absence of massively expanded prevention, treatment and care efforts, the AIDS death toll on the continent is set to …
Global Population Policy
From Population Control to Reproductive Rights
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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The general assumption throughout history has been that a growing population is beneficial for societies. By the mid-1960s, however, the United States and other developed countries became convinced that population control was an absolute necessity, especially in the developing world. This absorbing …
AIDS and Governance
Av Alan Whiteside, Nana K. Poku
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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The political impact of HIV/AIDS varies greatly and is difficult to map. States depend on how governments choose to manage the political implications of HIV and AIDS, both those stemming from the erosions of its own capacity as well as those that originate from their changing relationship on a …
AIDS and Governance
Av Alan Whiteside, Nana K. Poku
Häftad, 2007
817 kr
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The political impact of HIV/AIDS varies greatly and is difficult to map. States depend on how governments choose to manage the political implications of HIV and AIDS, both those stemming from the erosions of its own capacity as well as those that originate from their changing relationship on a …
AIDS, South Africa, and the Politics of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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Through an in-depth examination of the interactions between the South African government and the international AIDS control regime, Jeremy Youde examines not only the emergence of an epistemic community but also the development of a counter-epistemic community offering fundamentally different …
Gender and HIV/AIDS
Critical Perspectives from the Developing World
Av Nana K. Poku, Jelke Boesten
Inbunden, 2009
2512 kr
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Gender issues are central to the causes and impact of the ongoing AIDS epidemic. The editors bring together cutting edge contemporary scholarship on gender and AIDS in one volume. They address questions related to gender and sexuality, how women and men live the epidemic differently and how such …
Children and AIDS
Sub-Saharan Africa
Av Margaret Lombe, Alex Ochumbo
Inbunden, 2015
2586 kr
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The disproportional loss of individuals to HIV/AIDS in their most productive years raises concerns over the welfare of surviving members of affected families and communities. One consequence of the rapid increase in adult mortality is the rise in the proportion of children who are orphaned. …
Migrants and Health
Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in Health Systems
Av Christiane Falge, Carlo Ruzza
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural …
Politics of Surveillance and Response to Disease Outbreaks
The New Frontier for States and Non-state Actors
Av Sara E. Davies, Jeremy R. Youde
Häftad, 2017
847 kr
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The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify potential pandemics through the …
Illicit Medicines in the Global South
Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation
Av Mathieu Quet
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries.The book analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health interests has come to shape global regulation. Drawing on …
Illicit Medicines in the Global South
Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation
Av Mathieu Quet
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries.The book analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health interests has come to shape global regulation. Drawing on …
Migrant Health and Resilience
Transnational Competence in Conflict and Climate Displacement Situations
Av Peter H. Koehn, Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for displaced persons, members of their host communities, humanitarian responders, and health-care professionals is increasingly critical. Building on …
Civil Society Organizations and the Global Response to HIV/AIDS
Av Julia Smith
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Why has the response to HIV/AIDS been unique? How did civil society organizations gain access to global decision-making forums to demand exceptional attention and resources for HIV/AIDS? This book seeks to answer these questions, among others, through a critical international relations approach …
Migrant Health and Resilience
Transnational Competence in Conflict and Climate Displacement Situations
Av Peter H. Koehn, Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
712 kr
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In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for displaced persons, members of their host communities, humanitarian responders, and health-care professionals is increasingly critical. Building on …
Rethinking Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Women in Southern Africa
A Critical Perspective
Av Tamaryn Crankshaw, Jane Freedman m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
622 kr
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This important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to reach the most marginalised …
Rethinking Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Women in Southern Africa
A Critical Perspective
Av Tamaryn Crankshaw, Jane Freedman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2586 kr
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This important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to reach the most marginalised …
Decentralization and Health Policy in South Asia
A Comparative Approach
Inbunden, 2024
2197 kr
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This ambitious and insightful book provides a unique regional perspective on health policy across South Asia, focusing on how the decentralization of policy and governance leads to differing health outcomes across different countries in the region.Comparing the contexts and outcomes in Sri Lanka, …
Decentralization and Health Policy in South Asia
A Comparative Approach
Häftad, 2026
727 kr
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This ambitious and insightful book provides a unique regional perspective on health policy across South Asia, focusing on how the decentralization of policy and governance leads to differing health outcomes across different countries in the region.Comparing the contexts and outcomes in Sri Lanka, …
Civil Society Organizations and the Global Response to HIV/AIDS
Av Julia Smith
Inbunden, 2016
2512 kr
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Why has the response to HIV/AIDS been unique? How did civil society organizations gain access to global decision-making forums to demand exceptional attention and resources for HIV/AIDS? This book seeks to answer these questions, among others, through a critical international relations approach …
Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents
US Sectional Interests and the African Group at the WTO
Häftad, 2016
877 kr
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This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE). Marcellin focuses on the role of the transnational drug …
Informal Norms in Global Governance
Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rules and Access to Medicines
Häftad, 2016
877 kr
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Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic human rights? Starting in the 1990s, intellectual property obligations in trade agreements required many developing countries to begin granting …
Global Population Policy
From Population Control to Reproductive Rights
Häftad, 2017
750 kr
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The general assumption throughout history has been that a growing population is beneficial for societies. By the mid-1960s, however, the United States and other developed countries became convinced that population control was an absolute necessity, especially in the developing world. This absorbing …
HIV/AIDS and the South African State
Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Respond
Av Annamarie Bindenagel Šehovi?
Häftad, 2016
877 kr
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For three decades post-apartheid, the HIV/AIDS epidemic from first acknowledgement to its management as a chronic disease, demanded unparalleled attention. This was nowhere more evident than in South Africa. This book explores how the state responded to its responsibilities to defend and protect …
Politics of AIDS Denialism
South Africa's Failure to Respond
Av Pieter Fourie, Melissa Meyer
Inbunden, 2010
1526 kr
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Successive South African governments have had controversial views on HIV and AIDS which have led to allegations that South Africa is in a state of denial about the AIDS epidemic. This book attempts to determine the validity of such claims of government denial by formulating and testing a denial …
Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents
US Sectional Interests and the African Group at the WTO
Inbunden, 2010
2520 kr
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This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE). Marcellin focuses on the role of the transnational drug …
Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Michael J. Selgelid, Christian Enemark
Inbunden, 2012
2836 kr
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The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate. The actual or potential burden of infectious diseases is sometimes so …
Informal Norms in Global Governance
Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rules and Access to Medicines
Inbunden, 2013
2318 kr
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Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic human rights? Starting in the 1990s, intellectual property obligations in trade agreements required many developing countries to begin granting …
Living with HIV and Dying with AIDS
Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic
Av Lesley Doyal
Inbunden, 2013
2520 kr
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There is now a vast literature on HIV and AIDS but much of it is based on traditional biomedical or epidemiological approaches. Hence it tells us very little about the experiences of the millions of people whose living and dying constitute the reality of this devastating pandemic. Doyal brings …
Living with HIV and Dying with AIDS
Diversity, Inequality and Human Rights in the Global Pandemic
Av Lesley Doyal
Häftad, 2013
825 kr
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There is now a vast literature on HIV and AIDS but much of it is based on traditional biomedical or epidemiological approaches. Hence it tells us very little about the experiences of the millions of people whose living and dying constitute the reality of this devastating pandemic. Doyal brings …
Politics of Surveillance and Response to Disease Outbreaks
The New Frontier for States and Non-state Actors
Av Sara E. Davies, Jeremy R. Youde
Inbunden, 2015
2595 kr
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The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify potential pandemics through the …
