The global governance of success in HIV/AIDS policy: Emergency action, everyday lives and Sen's capabilities

Seckinelgin, Hakan

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.09.014

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“…Instead it features many aspects of therapeutic domination: the power imbalance inherent in the doctor-patient relationship is evident in the donor-recipient relationship here (McFalls, 2010). This imbalance or lop-sidedness confirms that HIV/AIDS funding in this case fits more closely with humanitarian aid than with post-Washington consensus conditions (McFalls, 2010;Seckinelgin, 2012). In other words, more than 3 decades into the epidemic, HIV/AIDS is still seen as an 'emergency' situation requiring relief aid.…”

Section: Therapeutic Dominationmentioning

confidence: 53%

“…The international organisations (especially UNAIDS and WHO) legitimise their interventions using the scientific rationality of medicine; the recipients -people affected and infected by HIV -are seen as passively accepting the policy interventions and biomedical interventions dominate and seem unrelated to actual lived experiences and cultural contexts of the recipients (Seckinelgin, 2012). The implication here is that while the language of global HIV/AIDS policy is partnership (ownership, alignment and mutual accountability), the reality is closer to therapeutic domination with donors controlling the nature and extent of interventions.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Iatrogenic Violence In Humanitarian Aimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Seckinelgin (2012) notes, the lived experiences of those living with the disease are seldom considered. This article aims to explore the recipient side of donor-recipient relationships in humanitarian aid targeting children affected by HIV/AIDS.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Iatrogenic Violence? Lived Experiences of Recipients of Aid that Targets Vulnerable Children in Makete, Tanzania

Daniel

2014

Forum for Development Studies

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Humanitarian aid does not always achieve its intended outcomes but may have unintended side-effects which harm rather than help recipient communities in the long run. In the context of aid, iatrogenic violence refers to circumstances where aid intended to benefit recipients instead causes social disruption. The relations between donor and recipient contribute significantly to the outcomes of aid. This article aims to explore the recipient side of donor -recipient relationships in humanitarian aid targeting children affected by HIV/AIDS in Makete, Tanzania. Specific objectives include exploring (i) the lived experiences of the children who are targeted by the aid, (ii) the lived experiences of related caregivers and community members and (iii) the responses of local leaders, both nongovernmental organisation (NGO) officers and local government leaders. Fortyone orphaned children aged 9 -18 were involved in 3 one-hour-long participatory activities. From these, 12 were selected for in-depth interviews. Four caregivers of orphaned children and 15 key informants (community leaders and NGO officers) were interviewed. Findings show that the type of aid and method of distribution are determined by the donors and do not fit well with local conditions. Examples of iatrogenic violence include conflict and division between those in the community who receive aid and those who do not, increasing dependency with a corresponding reduction in self-reliance, criteria that exclude the most vulnerable children from aid and passivity and nonparticipation. Donor-controlled humanitarian aid is causing unintended harm in the recipient communities.

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Section: Therapeutic Dominationmentioning

confidence: 53%

Section: Conceptual Framework: Iatrogenic Violence In Humanitarian Aimentioning

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Iatrogenic Violence? Lived Experiences of Recipients of Aid that Targets Vulnerable Children in Makete, Tanzania

Daniel

2014

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“…This is problematic because it is likely that actions that are believed to be best in the short term will exacerbate the problem in the long-term (Barnett and Prins, 2006, p. 360; see also Barnett, 2006). Rather than imposing emergency measures, the response instead should be part of the normal, routine political process (Elbe, 2006, p. 13; see also Seckinelgin, 2012b). An HIV specialist working with CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) in Malawi explains:…”

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“…2 It draws upon extensive fieldwork to re-orientate the analysis along the global-local axis by focusing on the micro-level of the politics of health 'from below'. This refocusing is important because viruses spread at the level of the body as a result of interpersonal sexual relations and have ramifications at all levels, from the bodily to the familial, communal, national and the international (see also Anderson, 2012, p. 271;Seckinelgin, 2008Seckinelgin, , 2012bSeckinelgin et al, 2010). In so doing, it connects with work in feminist geopolitics that Koch (2011, p. 500) argues challenges the 'masculinist privileging of the "big things" and the disembodied vision that such an approach generally employs' (see Dowler and Sharp, 2001;Secor, 2001;Sharp, 2000).…”

Section: The Challenges For the Academymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, HIV and Risk

Anderson

2015

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This timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender and politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics.The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women's movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality.

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Life Course Approaches in Global Health

Burton-Jeangros¹

2020

Handbook of Global Health

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The life course perspective calls for analyses examining individual health trajectories in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Initiated as a new approach to human development in the 1960s, it has been applied to the study of health for the last three decades in epidemiology. It expands the social determinants of health framework by stressing the importance of considering health over time, at both individual and collective levels. The potential of the life course approach in global health has been made explicit in national and international policy guidance. However, its application in research still remains limited, as a result of a range of challenges including multidisciplinarity, limited access to data and

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The global governance of success in HIV/AIDS policy: Emergency action, everyday lives and Sen's capabilities

Cited by 37 publications

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Iatrogenic Violence? Lived Experiences of Recipients of Aid that Targets Vulnerable Children in Makete, Tanzania

Iatrogenic Violence? Lived Experiences of Recipients of Aid that Targets Vulnerable Children in Makete, Tanzania

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