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The International Political Economy of Global Responses to HIV/AIDS

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Global responses to HIV/AIDS have shifted considerably since the mid 1990s. The development of combination anti-retroviral therapy (ART), which can extend significantly the lives of people living with HIV, was central to this. While ART rapidly became available to many of those in need within richer countries, leading to dramatic reductions in AIDS deaths, it was generally considered too expensive and too complicated for poor and middle-income countries, where around 90 per cent of people living with HIV were located. An increased focus on preventing transmission was considered to be the only viable way to address the epidemics of poor countries, leaving millions of people infected with HIV to die of AIDS.

Thanks are due to Adrian Kay and Owain Williams for their constructive com­ments on earlier versions of this chapter. My understanding of neoliberalism and its implications for global health and for HIV/AIDS relief has benefited from con­versations with Owain Williams, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Kris Peterson, Susan Craddock and Gerry Kearns, to all of whom I am particularly grateful.

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  1. Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia

    Adrian Kay

  2. University of Salford, UK

    Adrian Kay

  3. Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberystwyth University, UK

    Owain David Williams

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Ingram, A. (2009). The International Political Economy of Global Responses to HIV/AIDS. In: Kay, A., Williams, O.D. (eds) Global Health Governance. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230249486_5

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