Full Description
This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHO employed over the years, and expound on the factors that led to the Programme's demise and subsequent formation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS). The authors examine the global impact of this momentous transition, portray the current status of the global response to AIDS, and explore the precarious situation that WHO finds itself in today as a lead United Nations agency in global health.
Several aspects of the global response - the strategies adopted, the roads taken and not taken, and the lessons learned - can provide helpful guidance to the global health community as it continues tackling theAIDS pandemic and confronts future global pandemics.
Included in the coverage:
The response before the global response
Building and coordinating a multi-sectoral response
Containing the global spread of HIV
Addressing stigma, discrimination, and human rights
Rethinking global AIDS governance
UNAIDS and its place in the global response
The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response recounts the global response to the AIDS pandemic from its inception to today. Policymakers, students, faculty, journalists, researchers, and health professionals interested in HIV/AIDS, global health, global pandemics, and the history of medicine will find it highly compelling and consequential. It will also interest those involved in global affairs, global governance, international relations, and international development.
Contents
The Response Before the Global Response.- The Launch of the Control Program on AIDS.- Creating a Global Response.- Assuming Global Leadership.- Building and Coordinating a Multi-Sectoral Response.- Health, Human Rights, and the GPA.- The Resignation of Jonathan Mann.- The Transition.-Enhancing program delivery.- Containing the global spread of HIV.- Supporting Research.- Addressing Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights.- Challenges and Criticisms.- The Challenges of coordination.- Rethinking Global AIDS Governance.- The end of GPA and the launch of UNAIDS.- The Development of UNAIDS.
