Drugs into Bodies recounts the emergence and development of a globally oriented AIDS treatment activist movement that refused to accept that more than 40 million people with HIV in the developing world should simply be left to die. Rooted in earlier AIDS activist efforts, this new movement has forged a global network dedicated to providing universal access to life-saving medications.
More than 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, yet only a small fraction have access to life-saving treatments. For many years, governments, pharmaceutical companies, and...
Drugs into Bodies recounts the emergence and development of a globally oriented AIDS treatment activist movement that refused to accept that...
This is a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic and complex problem of AIDS policymaking. Siplon analyzes the five major AIDS policy areas--medical treatment, blood policy, transmission prevention, social services delivery and AIDS-based foreign policy--and the policy issues: definition (right vs. commodity), regulation, competing values, distributive policy, and membership in groups awarded resources. The complexity of AIDS policymaking is such that each policy creates a new problem.
This is a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic and complex problem of AIDS policymaking. Siplon analyzes the five major AIDS policy areas--medical tr...
