The AIDS Pandemic

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization(WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace theglobal response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initiallyto assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHOemployed over the years, and expound on the factors that led to the Programmes demiseand subsequent formation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The authors examine the global impact of this momentous transition, portraythe current status of the global response to AIDS, and explore the precarious situationthat WHO finds itself in today as a lead United Nations agency in global health. Several aspects of the global response the strategies adopted, the roads taken andnot taken, and the lessons learned can provide helpful guidance to the global healthcommunity as it continues tackling theAIDS pandemic and confronts future globalpandemics. Included in the coverage: The response before the global response Building and coordinating a multi-sectoral response Containing the global spread of HIV Addressing stigma, discrimination, and human rights Rethinking global AIDS governance UNAIDS and its place in the global response The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response recounts the global response to theAIDS pandemic from its inception to today. Policymakers, students, faculty, journalists,researchers, and health professionals interested in HIV/AIDS, global health, global pandemics,and the history of medicine will find it highly compelling and consequential.It will also interest those involved in global affairs, global governance, internationalrelations, and international development.