Brazil's Fight Against AIDS and Its Implications for Global Health Governance

Jp, Wogart; Calcagnotto, Gilberto

doi:10.12927/whp.2006.17869

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“…In the majority of peer‐reviewed articles surveyed, “governance” was adopted as a synonym for managerial oversight or sector‐specific management (as in “clinical governance”). More general studies under “governance and HIV/AIDS” or “governance of health” employed the term in various ways, including descriptions of shared or devolved decision making, (Young, ) or as instances of a more general global health governance (Wogart and Calcagnotto, ). We discovered no large‐scale studies devoted to the overall impact of HIV/AIDS funding on the governance of recipient country health systems.…”

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Developing country health systems and the governance of international HIV/AIDS funding

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Whitman

2011

Health Planning & Management

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Developing country health systems and the governance of international HIV/AIDS funding

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Whitman

2011

Health Planning & Management

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“…Brazil basically tried to put pressure on pharmaceutical companies to reach better terms of access to antiretrovivals (ARVs) and to reduce the prices of drugs in Brazil in order to finance the national programme for ARV treatment to all those in need (Wade, 2003: 5ff. ;Wogart and Calcagnotto, 2006). In South Africa, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, backed by 39 Pharma TNCs, filed a lawsuit against the South African Government in 1997, which in that year had authorized the health department to determine the conditions under which parallel imports to lower the costs of AIDS treatment should be permitted (Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act).…”

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Global Health Governance

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Kohlmorgen

2008

Global Social Policy

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This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development. This leads to an integration of the "diseases of the poor" (basically infectious diseases) into strategies of fighting poverty. Considering the example of global HIV/AIDS politics, the paper argues that new governance modes increase the participation of civil society groups and affected communities, but that they are also frequently instrumentalised by powerful actors to pursue their particular interests. In fact, increasing resources are mobilized for the fight against poverty related diseases. The paper concludes that global health governance is characterized by a combination of moral values and material interests which does not guarantee a comprehensive realization of social rights, but which allows some progress in the fight against poverty-related diseases -a precondition of the possible further realization of social rights.

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“…The Ministry of Health defined ambitious prevention policies and provided free access to antiretroviral treatment. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Implemented at 3 levels-federal, state, and municipal-the AIDS programs have been developed within the Brazilian universal health system (Systema Unico de Saude), impelled by the sanitarist movement. [14][15][16] This movement involved physicians, public health workers, and politicians who in the 1980s advocated and then implemented this new health system, which is based on prevention and free access to care.…”

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“…[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Moreover, very few published articles have adopted a political science stance and public policy analysis to identify what happens at the front line, to assess how different actors cooperate, and to assess what consequences their cooperation induces for prevention of HIV infection, care of the patient, and sustainability of AIDS programs.…”

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