This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions.

1. Governance of HIV/AIDS 1.1 Internationalization 1.2 'International Perspective' 1.3 Governance 1.4 Governance Context 2. Constructing Agency in the Time of an Epidemic 2.1 Institutionalization 2.2 Investigating the Institutionalization Mechanism Agency 2.3 NGOs and HIV/AIDS: A Question of Agency 2.4 Institutional Values I 2.5 Institutional Values II 2.6 Institutional Values III 2.7 Why Does this Matter? 2.8 Conclusion 3. Medicalization 3.1 Medicalization 3.2 Signs of Medicalization 3.3 A Magic Bullet: Treatment? 3.4 Research in Zambia 3.5 Implications and Questions 3.6 Magic Bullet Revisited 4. What do we Need to Know for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Africa? 4.1 How do we Think about This? 4.2 We Know What Works! 4.3 Tools: 4.4 Assumptions 4.5 People's Experiences of our Knowledge 4.6 Social-Cultural Issues 4.7 Gender Issues 4.8 Socio-Economic Issues 4.9 Colliding Knowledge Domains 4.10 How do we Re-Think what we Know? 4.11 Implications of this Approach 4.12 Conclusion 5. Language as a Transformative Mechanism 5.1 Definitions and Actions 5.2 Civil Society-Definition or Description? 5.3 Civil Society-Description to Action? 5.4 Why does this Matter? 5.5 Conclusion: Time to Wake Up