The "Dirty Work" of Public Health

Abstract

Last ned gratis The working paper explores the intersection of public health and HIV/AIDS discourse and policy amidst shifts in governance as well as the resilient stigma associated with the epidemic. HIV/ADS is therefore used as an anlytical lens through which to view the tensions between continuity and chage in public health. AIDS is regarded as both a signifier of older more coercive traditions in public health and as a catalyst for creating new modalities of right-based public health planning and decision-making. Exploring "what works" in responses to HIV/AIDS therefore foregrounds the need for a contextual politics of the epidemic and public health. Reference is made to experiences from the "West" with sesific country case studies from Brazil, Russia and South Africa. Tilknyttet prosjekt Planlegging og organisering for bedre folkehelse