TY - CHAP
T1 - Developing Socially and Ethically Responsive National AIDS Policies
AU - Laar, Amos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Responding to AIDS at the global or local levels can give rise to a multitude of tensions. To facilitate sustainable attainment of AIDS response goals, these tensions need to be deliberately balanced. This chapter discusses data from an exercise that examined how responsive Ghana’s National AIDS policy documents/guidelines are to social, cultural, political, and ethical contexts. The chapter highlights key measures to developing and implementing national AIDS response policies that do not lose sight of how policy insensitivities, but also how social forces, and other structural barriers affect realization of health. Although focused on Ghana’s AIDS response guidelines, the analysis presented in the chapter enables identification of gaps in similar national public health policies.
AB - Responding to AIDS at the global or local levels can give rise to a multitude of tensions. To facilitate sustainable attainment of AIDS response goals, these tensions need to be deliberately balanced. This chapter discusses data from an exercise that examined how responsive Ghana’s National AIDS policy documents/guidelines are to social, cultural, political, and ethical contexts. The chapter highlights key measures to developing and implementing national AIDS response policies that do not lose sight of how policy insensitivities, but also how social forces, and other structural barriers affect realization of health. Although focused on Ghana’s AIDS response guidelines, the analysis presented in the chapter enables identification of gaps in similar national public health policies.
KW - AIDS
KW - Ethics
KW - Guidelines
KW - HIV
KW - Public health policies
KW - Structural forces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134178407&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-09191-9_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-09191-9_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85134178407
T3 - SpringerBriefs in Public Health
SP - 77
EP - 89
BT - SpringerBriefs in Public Health
PB - Springer
ER -