Governance & HIV and AIDS

Squaring the circle : AIDS, poverty, and human development

Piot, Peter and Greener, Robert and Russell, Sarah | 2007
  • Author(s): Piot, Peter and Greener, Robert and Russell, Sarah
  • Publisher: PLoS medicine
  • Pages: 1571--1575
  • Keywords: development, poverty alleviation, disease prevention, health programmes, epidemics, africa
This report highlights the differences between the effects of AIDS on poverty, and of poverty upon the risk of acquiring HIV. HIV is a disease of inequality. The authors state that factors such as gender inequality and weakened social cohesion are important.

Community participation and consensus in HIV/AIDS prevention : an exploration of the Suzgo, the issues of AIDS in Malawi

Poehlman, Jon Aaron | 2004
  • Author(s): Poehlman, Jon Aaron
  • Publisher: Author
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: community participation, disease prevention, evaluation, research, aids, malawi
This research studies the role that shared agreement or consensus plays in developing a community’s AIDS-related knowledge and in creating community-specific priorities for AIDS prevention activities.

Accountability and the right to health : a framework for national action

Potts, Helen T. | 2008
  • Author(s): Potts, Helen T.
  • Publisher: University of Essex]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: programme planning, health planning, health policy, human rights
This document provides an introduction to accountability in the context of the right to health for policy makers who are concerned with the incorporation of participation, monitoring and accountability into all aspects of their health policy and plans.

Vicious circle - HIV/AIDS, state capacity, and national security : lessons from Zimbabwe, 1990-2005

Price-Smith, Andrew T. | 2007
  • Author(s): Price-Smith, Andrew T.
  • Publisher: Seton Hall university. John C. Whitehead school of diplomacy and international relations]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health, governance, aids, zimbabwe
This study analyzes the effects of HIV/AIDS upon governance and security within the context of the case of Zimbabwe. It provides initial empirical evidence of the epidemic’s capability to compromise prosperity, political stability and national security

Downward spiral : HIV/AIDS, state capacity, and political conflict in Zimbabwe

Price-Smith, Andrew T. and Daly, John L. | 2004
  • Author(s): Price-Smith, Andrew T. and Daly, John L.
  • Publisher: United States institute of peace (USIP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: aids, political aspects, economic aspects, conflict, zimbabwe
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate, by focusing on the case of Zimbabwe, how HIV/AIDS operates simultaneously across various domains - demographic, economic, and governance - to destabilize states and threaten their national security.
 

About this portal

The information portal provides access to selected, free full-text electronic publications and other Internet sources on the mechanisms of interaction through which HIV and AIDS policies and strategies are developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated at different levels involving both public and private parties.