AIDS in Pakistan Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs. In the early 2000s, Pakistan’s response to HIV/AIDS was scaled-up and declared an area of urgent intervention. This response was funded by international donors r
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PAKISTAN
Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
AYAZ QURESHI
AIDS in Pakistan
Ayaz Qureshi
AIDS in Pakistan Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
Ayaz Qureshi Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Lahore University of Management Sciences Lahore, Pakistan
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To my family, with love and thanks.
Acknowledgements
This book is primarily an ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS work in Pakistan at the level of government and NGOs. I will be forever indebted to those people in Pakistan who so generously allowed me to work alongside them, especially at the National AIDS Control Programme, and to all of those who shared their thoughts with me in interviews. I may not always have represented their stories in the ways that they had hoped, but I have tried to represent their situations with balance and fairness and to protect their identities as individuals. Ultimately, I hope they will understand the ethical compulsions that led me to describe their field of work in the way that I have, and perhaps they might even recognize something in my descriptions. The book is the end result of doctoral research carried out at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, under the supervision of Caroline Osella, who was the most supportive, kind and inspiring mentor I could
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