In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how
medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and …

Since the end of the Cold War, religion has become an ever more explicit and systematic
focus of US foreign policy across multiple domains. US foreign policymakers, for instance …

Introduction The idea of 'development', as it emerged in the post-Second World War era of
de-colonization and American hegemony, embodied notions of 'progress' and 'modernity' …

Engaging and challenging central institutionalist concepts, this article focuses on the
involvement of churches and other Christian organizations in HIV/AIDS programs in South …

This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS
and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader …

In this introduction to the special issue, we follow the journey of global AIDS medicines into
diverse health facilities in East Africa, which for decades have been subjected to neoliberal …

This article addresses the rise of faith-based emergency relief by examining the US
President's Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS (PEPFAR), a public health intervention focused on …

Increasing interest in faith-based international development organisations (FBOs) recently
has improved understanding of these agencies. One reason for complex, often contradictory …

The growing number of international causes and an intensification in the establishment of
transnational networks in Africa are expanding a chain of interdependency which links an …

Background The growing importance of religious influences in relation to the individual and
social consequences of HIV and AIDS has increasingly been acknowledged by workers in …