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UNINA9910300263003321 |
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Autore |
Qureshi Ayaz |
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Titolo |
AIDS in Pakistan [[electronic resource] ] : Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs / / by Ayaz Qureshi |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XI, 217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Health promotion |
Medical anthropology |
Health administration |
Economic development |
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention |
Medical Anthropology |
Health Administration |
Development and Health |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1: AIDS in the Islamic Republic -- Chapter 2: The HIV prevention market -- Chapter 3: Enterprising bureaucrats -- Chapter 4: Surviving hard times -- Chapter 5: Participating in the Global Fund -- Chapter 6: Responsibility for care and support -- Chapter 7: AIDS activism -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs. In the early 2000s, Pakistan’s response to HIV/AIDS was scaled-up and declared an area of urgent intervention. This response was funded by international donors requiring prevention, care and support services to be contracted out to NGOs - a global policy considered particularly important in Pakistan where the high risk populations are criminalized by the state. Based on unparalleled ethnographic access to government bureaucracies and their dealings |
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