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The Politics of Access to Anti-Retrovirals in the Treatment of African AIDS
Project Period 1 April 2004 - 30 November 2010
Project Budget individual research project
Main Collaborating Institutions The Working Group on Social and Political Aspects of
AIDS in Uganda at the Child Health and Development Centre, Makerere University
(Uganda) and the AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU) University of Cape Town
(South Africa).
Principal Project Coordinators
Lisa Ann Richey, Roskilde University
Project Description
The project started on 1 April 2004
within the Dept. of International development studies at RUC and has been
continuing under our new Dept. of Society and Globalisation. It is requested
taht the project will conclude on 30 November 2010. In brief, globalization has brought
technological access to the forefront of political debates over inequality. Improving
access to ARVs has become officially a global priority, in contrast to
conventional wisdom that ARV therapies would remain beyond the reach of most
HIV positive people in poor countries. However,
access requires more than just drugs. In
African countries, access to ARVs is bound together with important questions
about the relationship between civil society, for-profit pharmaceutical
companies, international donors and lenders and African states. This comparative reearch project analyzes ARV
treatment using a multi-sited, vertical ethnography. Meaningful case studies in South Africa and Uganda are analyzed through
fieldwork-based data collection and ongoing research collaboration. The project activities of analysis, writing
and publishing, networking, fieldwork and dissemination are being completed
successfully.
Contact person: Lisa Ann Richey, Roskilde University richey @ ruc.dk
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http://www.chdc-muk.com/working-group.htm
http://orecomm.net/participants/lisa-ann-richey/
