Twelve Brazil’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment
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Elize Massard da Fonseca
Abstract
Civil society action in national policies in response to the AIDS epidemic since the 1980s, one of the prime examples of successful policy combining government capability and societal activism in Brazil, is examined by Elize Massard Fonseca and Francisco Inácio P. Bastos. As the basis for analysing the overall policy, they focus on government policies to guarantee access to anti-retroviral drugs, looking at the role of advocacy groups in the debate over ownership of drug patents and harm reduction policies for drug users. The World Bank’s strong support for AIDS control favoured the agenda of groups and experts concerned to produce policy analyses and solutions, such as needle exchange programmes as harm reduction policy. Activism connected with the epidemic and AIDS control played an important role in information production for, and influence on, government decision-making, particularly in promoting universal access to drugs, in discussion forums on intellectual property and in the clash with laboratories over prices and local production rights.
Abstract
Civil society action in national policies in response to the AIDS epidemic since the 1980s, one of the prime examples of successful policy combining government capability and societal activism in Brazil, is examined by Elize Massard Fonseca and Francisco Inácio P. Bastos. As the basis for analysing the overall policy, they focus on government policies to guarantee access to anti-retroviral drugs, looking at the role of advocacy groups in the debate over ownership of drug patents and harm reduction policies for drug users. The World Bank’s strong support for AIDS control favoured the agenda of groups and experts concerned to produce policy analyses and solutions, such as needle exchange programmes as harm reduction policy. Activism connected with the epidemic and AIDS control played an important role in information production for, and influence on, government decision-making, particularly in promoting universal access to drugs, in discussion forums on intellectual property and in the clash with laboratories over prices and local production rights.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and figures vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xv
- Policy analysis in Brazil: the state of the art 1
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Styles and Methods of Policy Analysis in Brazil
- Professionalisation of policy analysis in Brazil 13
- Policy analysis styles in Brazil 27
- Modernisation of the state and bureaucratic capacity-building in the Brazilian Federal Government 39
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Policy Analysis by Governments and the Legislature
- Policy analysis and governance innovations in the federal government 55
- Policy monitoring and evaluation systems: recent advances in Brazil’s federal public administration 69
- Privatisation and policy decision-making in Brazil 81
- Production of policy-related information and knowledge in Brazil: the state government agencies 95
- Policy analysis at the municipal level of government 107
- The role of the Brazilian legislature in the public policy decision-making process 119
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Parties, Councils, Interest Groups and Advocacy-Based Policy Analysis
- Brazil’s National Council for Social Assistance and the policy community supporting social assistance as a right 135
- Brazil’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment 149
- Media and policy analysis in Brazil: the process of policy production, reception and analysis through the media 163
- Parties and public policy: programmatic formulation and political processing of constitutional amendments 177
- Business associations and public policy analysis 191
- Policy analysis in non-governmental organisations and the implementation of pro-diversity policies 205
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Academic and Research Institute-Based Policy Analysis
- Expert community and sectoral policy: the Brazilian Sanitary Reform 219
- Brazilian think tanks: between the past and the future 233
- Policy analysis by academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro State 249
- Postgraduate instruction and policy analysis training in Brazil 261
- Index 273
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and figures vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xv
- Policy analysis in Brazil: the state of the art 1
-
Styles and Methods of Policy Analysis in Brazil
- Professionalisation of policy analysis in Brazil 13
- Policy analysis styles in Brazil 27
- Modernisation of the state and bureaucratic capacity-building in the Brazilian Federal Government 39
-
Policy Analysis by Governments and the Legislature
- Policy analysis and governance innovations in the federal government 55
- Policy monitoring and evaluation systems: recent advances in Brazil’s federal public administration 69
- Privatisation and policy decision-making in Brazil 81
- Production of policy-related information and knowledge in Brazil: the state government agencies 95
- Policy analysis at the municipal level of government 107
- The role of the Brazilian legislature in the public policy decision-making process 119
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Parties, Councils, Interest Groups and Advocacy-Based Policy Analysis
- Brazil’s National Council for Social Assistance and the policy community supporting social assistance as a right 135
- Brazil’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment 149
- Media and policy analysis in Brazil: the process of policy production, reception and analysis through the media 163
- Parties and public policy: programmatic formulation and political processing of constitutional amendments 177
- Business associations and public policy analysis 191
- Policy analysis in non-governmental organisations and the implementation of pro-diversity policies 205
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Academic and Research Institute-Based Policy Analysis
- Expert community and sectoral policy: the Brazilian Sanitary Reform 219
- Brazilian think tanks: between the past and the future 233
- Policy analysis by academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro State 249
- Postgraduate instruction and policy analysis training in Brazil 261
- Index 273
