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Five Years of Access and Activism
In April 2009, we marked the five year anniversary of PLoS Medicine’s first call for papers with an editorial titled ‘‘A Medical Journal for the World’s Health Priorities’’ [1]. The editorial was a renewed and revitalized call for papers, announcing a ‘‘refocusing of the journal’s priorities.’’ Going forward, we said, we would prioritize papers addressing those diseases with the greatest global...
متن کامل[Politicized sexualities: AIDS activism and sexual orientation in Portugal].
This article analyzes how both the Portuguese state and civil society have addressed the AIDS issue, focusing on participation by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual community (LGBT) in the struggle against AIDS. The article begins by describing the situation of LGBT individuals in Portugal during the 1990s, when the Portuguese LGBT movement emerged and grew, and then characterizes the ...
متن کاملEditorial: The AIDS crisis, cost-effectiveness and academic activism.
Recent articles by Marseille et al. (2002) and Creese et al. (2002), published shortly before the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona (7–12 July 2002), provoked an outcry in the AIDS community. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of HIV/AIDS interventions in sub-Saharan Africa led the authors to conclude that prevention is considerably more cost-effective than Highly Active Anti-Retroviral...
متن کاملFrom “Rights” to “Ritual”: AIDS Activism in South Africa
In this article, I investigate how the moral politics of HIV/AIDS activism in South Africa is contributing toward new forms of citizenship that are concerned with both rights-based struggles and with creating collectively shared meanings of the extreme experiences of illness and stigmatization of individual HIV/AIDS sufferers. I argue that it is precisely the extremity of the “near death” exper...
متن کاملPartisan Activism and Access to Welfare in Lebanon.
How do welfare regimes function when state institutions are weak and ethnic or sectarian groups control access to basic services? This paper explores how people gain access to basic services in Lebanon, where sectarian political parties from all major religious communities are key providers of social assistance and services. Based on analyses of an original national survey (n= 1,911) as well as...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.140986