Health on Delivery
Subtitle: the Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi
Edition: First edition.
Series: Anthropology and Global Public Health
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781315200743
Subjects: HIV infections; Treatment; HIV-positive persons; Antiretroviral agents; Medical policy; Infections à VIH; Traitement; Séropositifs; Antirétroviraux; Politique sanitaire
Description: "In 2004 Malawi began to offer antiretroviral therapy to anyone who needed it. This undertaking would have been ambitious for any nation, but it was unprecedented coming from one of the poorest countries in the world. Health on Delivery examines this introduction of state-provided antiretroviral therapy from an ethnographic perspective. Moving from World Health Organization boardrooms in Geneva to clinics held under trees in rural Malawi, it studies the patients, healthcare providers, and policy-makers involved, considering how the rollout has impacted their lives and professions. In doing so, it examines both the challenges and successes of an ambitious attempt to provide universal HIV treatment with limited money, infrastructure, and human resources. As well as an important case study, the book also offers an analytic framework to address the processes by which global policy is made and implemented. Engagingly written, Health on Delivery will be interesting reading for students and scholars of both anthropology and public health, as well as related disciplines such as geography, international politics and world development. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in global health policies and world development."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Dedication; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Abbreviations; title: 1 Introduction; title: 2 Hierarchies of Emergency: Global Policy and the ART Rollout in Malawi; title: 3 Stretched Too Thin: Malawi's National Shortage of Healthcare Workers; title: 4 Relationship Matters: Patient and Healthcare Provider Experiences in an Antiretroviral Clinic; title: 5 Reaching Out for Health: Strategies to Improve HIV Care in Village Settings; title: 6 Conclusion: A Lesson in Healthcare Delivery: How Global Policy Translates into HIV Care, and What We Can Learn From It; title: Index.