The Treatment Controversy: Global Health Governance and South Africa’s Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Abstract

This chapter endeavours to analyse the contentious relationship between actors of the global and national level of global health governance (GHG) in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The case study deals predominantly with vertical relationships between actors on the national and global level, i.e. vertical interfaces (see Chapter 1). Despite the multiplicity of actors from GHG, it will illustrate the enduring relevance of national actor configurations and policies for the fight against HIV/AIDS on the nation-state level. In contrast to Brazil (Chapter 7), the interaction between the South African government and GHG actors was for a long time characterized by distrust and divergent priorities.