Invisible Men: Constructing Men Who Have Sex with Men as a Global AIDS Priority at UNAIDS and Beyond
Author: McKay, Tara , tara.mckay@gmail.com
Department: Sociology
University: University of California Los Angeles, USA
Supervisor: Stefan Timmermans
Year of completion: 2013
Language of dissertation: English
Keywords:
international organi
, AIDS policy
, sexualities
, Africa
Areas of Research:
Organization
, Health
, Local-Global Relations
Abstract
This dissertation examines the global policy response to AIDS focusing on how new priorities emerge and are diffused throughout the global system. Tracing the emergence of a new policy at UNAIDS to it's adoption across countries and engagement at the local level in southern Africa, the dissertation provides a novel account of the social life of AIDS policy from inception to implementation, cataloging both the successes of intergovernmental organizations in diffusing new policy to government agencies around the world and the failure of the same policy to affect change on the ground.
