by ghgovernance | Nov 21, 2011 | HIV/AIDS, Latin America
Overcoming Decentralization’s Defects: Discovering Alternative Routes to Centralization in a Context of Path Dependent HIV/AIDS Policy Devolution in Brazil Eduardo Gomez In a context of poorly designed health policy decentralization processes and constitutional...
by ghgovernance | Nov 21, 2011 | Donor Assistance/Aid, HIV/AIDS
Making Aid Meaningful: An Analysis of Funding Patterns in PEPFAR I Victoria Boggiano A major obstacle to effective foreign aid delivery is the complex bureaucracy that accompanies it. The 2003 United States (US) President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),...
by ghgovernance | Nov 21, 2011 | Europe, North America, Pandemic Response
Multilevel Governance and Complex Threats: The Case of Pandemic Preparedness in the European Union and the United States Erik Brattberg and Mark Rhinard The scale of dangers...
by ghgovernance | Nov 17, 2011 | Health Systems, Universal Health Coverage
The Spring 2012 issue of Global Health Governance will focus on the future of universal health coverage (UHC). Building on the 2010 World Health Report and the 2011 World Health Assembly’s UHC resolution (WHA64.9), this themed issue will consider the intersection of...
by ghgovernance | Jun 21, 2011 | Asia, Global Health Diplomacy
Health Diplomacy in China Xu Jing, Liu Peilong, and Guo Yan China has been actively involved in health diplomacy since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. In addition to the changing international environment, dominant ideologies, and...
by ghgovernance | Jun 21, 2011 | HIV/AIDS, Latin America, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS/TB/Malaria
Regional HIV-Related Policy Processes in Peru in the Context of the Peruvian National Decentralization Plan and Global Fund Support: Peru GHIN Study Ruth Iguiñiz-Romero, Roberto López, Clara Sandoval, Alejandro Chirinos, José Pajuelo and Carlos Cáceres The...
by ghgovernance | Jun 21, 2011 | International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, World Health Organization
Stop Making Excuses: Understanding Hepatitis B and the Global Failure to Act Laura L. Janik-Marusov Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one hundred times more contagious than HIV/AIDS and is one of the leading causes of primary liver cancer. Merck created the first hepatitis B...
by ghgovernance | Jun 21, 2011 | Asia, Pandemic Response
Epidemics as Politics with Case Studies from Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam Tuong Vu Severe epidemics caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza viruses have recently killed hundreds of people while causing chaos and panic in many...
by ghgovernance | Jun 21, 2011 | Governance
Global Health Governance at a Crossroads Nora Y. Ng and Jennifer Prah Ruger This review takes stock of the global health governance (GHG) literature. We address the transition from international health governance (IHG) to global health governance, identify major...
by ghgovernance | Jun 21, 2011 | Foreign Policy
Rise and Fall of Global Health as a Foreign Policy Issue David P. Fidler Global health has risen in prominence in foreign policy but now faces a fall in its foreign policy importance. Global health’s recent rise in foreign policy has been unprecedented, but this...
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...
