by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Pandemic Response
Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations: An Example of Health Promotion Theater Anita Miko and Monica K. Miller In 2009, New York became the first state to issue a policy requiring health care personnel to obtain influenza vaccinations. This law can be described as “health...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Essential Medicines, International Law
Global Health Governance, Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines: Opportunities and Impediments for South-South Cooperation Obijiofor Aginam Intellectual property “rights,” in many complex ways, impede access to Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs in most...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Accountability, Donor Assistance/Aid, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS/TB/Malaria
Enhancing Accountability in HIV Programs: Lessons from the Global Fund’s First Learning Wave of National Strategy Applications Peter Godwin, Erasmus Morah, Anja Nitzsche-Bell, Alloys Orago,David Kalomba, Henk van Renterghem, Sujaya Misra, and Michael Karangwa The...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Donor Assistance/Aid, International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS/TB/Malaria
Health Aid Governance in Fragile States: The Global Fund Experience Olga Bornemisza, Jamie Bridge, Michael Olszak-Olszewski, George Sakvarelidze, and Jeffrey V Lazarus Fragile states represent key challenges for global health governance. This study analyzes Global...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Emerging Powers
Global Health Governance in a G-20 World Laurie Garrett and El’Haum Alavian Historically, the G-8 has led the rich world’s response to global health challenges, including HIV. However, following the financial crisis of 2008 attention has turned not to the G-8, but to...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Accountability, HIV/AIDS
Making Accountability Work for the AIDS Response Per Strand Though ‘democratic AIDS governance’ has become the norm for the political governance of the AIDS response, it presents a dilemma that is likely to undermine the effectiveness and political sustainability of...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Health Security, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights
Framing AIDS: Securitization, Development-ization, Rights-ization Simon Rushton What determines whether or not global health problems become global political priorities? In recent years the global health governance literature, drawing on earlier constructivist work on...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | HIV/AIDS, Industry
Business Strategy and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries Anne Roemer-Mahler The availability of generic ARVs was important for the expansion of treatment in developing countries. This paper argues that it is therefore imperative to examine which factors have...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Community Health, HIV/AIDS
Social Capital and Effective HIV Prevention: Community Responses Daniel Low-Beer, Musoke Sempala Most work on health governance has been concerned with global and national coordination; this paper assesses the governance challenge of building HIV prevention programs...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | HIV/AIDS, Industry, Sub-Saharan Africa
Governance of Mining, HIV and Tuberculosis in Southern Africa David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu, and Martin McKee Mining in southern Africa has amplified HIV and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics across the continent through social, political, and biological risks posed to miners...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Donor Assistance/Aid, HIV/AIDS
Perspectives Integrating Country Coordinating Mechanisms with Existing National Health and AIDS Structures: Emerging Issues and Future Directions Clare Dickinson and Nel Druce This paper analyses how countries are adapting the architecture and requirements for...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | HIV/AIDS
How Consultations by People Living with HIV Drive Change and Shape Policies, Programs and Normative Guidelines Christoforos Mallouris, Georgina Caswell, and Edwin J. Bernard People living with HIV are increasingly involved in shaping HIV responses and their collective...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | HIV/AIDS
Applying the Principles of AIDS ‘Exceptionality’ to Global Health: Challenges for Global Health Governance Gorik Ooms, Peter S. Hill, Rachel Hammonds, Luc Van Leemput, Yibeltal Assefa, Katabaro Miti andWim Van Damme In this paper, we argue that a key feature of the...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | HIV/AIDS, Latin America, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Improving the HIV Response for Women in Latin America: Barriers to Integrated Advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Tamil Kendall and Eugenia Lopez-Uribe Civil society plays an important health governance role by influencing international sexual,...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | Donor Assistance/Aid, HIV/AIDS, Sub-Saharan Africa
The Pipers Call the Tunes in Global Aid for AIDS: The Global Financial Architecture for HIV Funding as Seen by Local Stakeholders in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia Jerker Edström and Hayley MacGregor Much theorising about global health governance has taken a view from above...
by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2010 | HIV/AIDS
People, Passion & Politics: Looking Back and Moving Forward in the Governance of the AIDS Response Michel Sidibé, Sonja Tanaka and Kent Buse Innovations in governance are among the signature achievements of the AIDS response which have redrawn the canvas upon...