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In 2004, the government of Malawi took the ambitious step of offering antiretroviral therapy to anyone who needed it. Health on Delivery examines how the antiretroviral rollout unfolded, moving from World Health Organization boardrooms in Geneva to clinics held under trees in rural Malawi. This engaging and accessible ethnographic study focuses on the patients, healthcare providers, and policy-makers involved. It provides an analytic framework to address the processes by which global policy is made and implemented.
List of contents
Introduction
Hierarchies of Emergency: Global Policy and the ART Rollout in Malawi
Stretched Too Thin: Malawi’s National Shortage of Healthcare Workers
Relationship Matters: Patient and Healthcare Provider Experiences in an Antiretroviral Clinic
Reaching Out for Health: Strategies to Improve HIV Care in Village Settings
Conclusion - A Lesson in Healthcare Delivery: How Global Policy Translates into HIV Care, and What We Can Learn From It.
About the author
Anat Rosenthal is a lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management and the Tamar Golan Africa Centre at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. A medical anthropologist, she studies global health policy and healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings.
