Main description:

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 the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHO employed over the years, and expound on the factors that led to the Programme's demise and subsequent formation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS). The authors examine the global impact of this momentous transition, portray the current status of the global response to AIDS, and explore the precarious situation that 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 and not taken, and the lessons learned - can provide helpful guidance to the global health community as it continues tackling the AIDS pandemic and confronts future global pandemics.
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 the AIDS 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, international relations, and international development.

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Figures
Tables
Introduction
Section 1: Global Mobilization in a Pandemic Chapter 1 - The Response Before the Global Response Chapter 2 - The Launch of the Control Program on AIDS Chapter 3 - Creating a Global Response Chapter 4 - Assuming Global Leadership Chapter 5 - Building and Coordinating a Multi-Sectoral Response Chapter 6 - Health, Human Rights, and the GPA Chapter 7 - The Resignation of Jonathan Mann
Section 2: From Mobilization to Managing in a Pandemic Chapter 8 - The Transition Chapter 9 - Enhancing program delivery Chapter 10 - Containing the global spread of HIV Chapter 11 - Supporting Research Chapter 12 - Addressing Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights Chapter 13 - Challenges and Criticisms Chapter 14 - The Challenges of coordination
Section 3: Seeking Global Coordination in a Pandemic Chapter 15 - Rethinking Global AIDS Governance Chapter 16 - The end of GPA and the launch of UNAIDS Chapter 17 - The Development of UNAIDS
Conclusion
Appendices
Index