Publisher's Synopsis
In the last ten years, HIV/AIDS has become a challenge for public health, public policy and research. Reducing further HIV transmissions as well as reducing the personal and social impact of HIV/AIDS requires a wide range of activities developed by a wide range of organizations ? the supply of which varies widely between countries, regions and social groups. - - The book describes the programmes which seem particularly effective in dealing with HIV/AIDS and the analyses try to explain the disparities in their distribution. It documents and tries to understand both the similarities in as well as the variety of national approaches taken to cope with HIV/AIDS in a number of European countries. On the basis of the welfare-mix model, six country studies and an introductory chapter draw particular attention to the different mixes of public policies and private non-profit, community-based activities; the functional mixes between different types of services in the areas of prevention, care, research, control and monitoring, interest representation and fund-raising. The mixes between specialized, so-called 'exclusive' HIV/AIDS service organizations and services made available by general, comprehensive, or so-called 'inclusive' institutions which provide AIDS-specific programmes among other activities will also be expanded upon. The whole range of HIV/AIDS activities, from professional services to self-help, in addition to the organizational response to HIV/AIDS is analyzed in a comparative perspective. - - The book is based on data from the European Centre / WHO Collaborative Study Managing AIDS. It is a comparative policy study on the role of non-profit organizations in public health and welfare policy, covering several thousands of organizations and HIV/AIDS programmes in six European countries.
