The World Bank and HIV AIDS: Setting a global agenda (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

193 Pages·2010·1.35 MB·English

by  Sophie Harman

The World Bank and HIV/AIDS
The governance of HIV/AIDS has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex
operation set and sustained by the World Bank. The governance of HIV/AIDS is a
political project that seeks to embed liberal practice through individual, state, and
community behaviour. At the heart of this practice is the drive to impose blueprint
neoliberal market-based solutions on a personal-global issue.
This book unravels how the Bank’s good governance agenda and commitment to
participation, ownership and transparency manifests itself in practice through the
Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP), and crucially how it is pushing an agenda
that sees a shift in both global health interventions and state confi guration in sub-
Saharan Africa. The book considers the mechanisms used by the Bank – and the
problems therein – to engage the state, civil society and the individual in respond-
ing to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and how these mechanisms have been exported to
other global projects such as the Global Fund and UNAIDS. Harman argues that
not only has the Bank set the global agenda for HIV/AIDS, but underpinning this
is a wider commitment to liberal governance through neoliberal incentive.
Making an important contribution to our understanding of global governance
and international politics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars
of politics, international political economy, international relations, development
studies and civil society.
Sophie Harman is a Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London.
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The World Bank and
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Setting a global agenda
Sophie Harman
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Harman, Sophie.
The World Bank and HIV/AIDS: setting a global agenda / Sophie Harman.
p. cm. – (Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 85)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. World Bank–Africa, Southern. 2. AIDS (Disease)–Africa,
Southern–Prevention. 3. HIV Infections–Africa, Southern–Prevention.
I. Title.
HG3881.5.W57H37 2010
362.196’979200968--dc22
2009050219
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Contents

Acknowledgements x
List of abbreviations xi
1 The complexity of HIV/AIDS governance 1
2 Pathways to multi-sectorality and HIV/AIDS 23
3 Owning HIV/AIDS: the state 48
4 Constructing multi-sectoralism: the community 74
5 Setting a global agenda 98
6 World Bank, governance and the politics of criticising HIV/AIDS 118
Notes 138
Bibliography 156

Index 170