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Passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990 followed a form familiar to students of policy making in the US intergovernmental system: the provision of significant federal financing for policy initiatives located primarily at the state & local levels. The successes & failures of the act, including its 1996 reauthorization, suggest both the strengths & the limitations of that design. Examined here are the structure of the act as a vehicle for the federal government to fund AIDS service delivery at the state & local levels & the intergovernmental consequences of allocation policies associated with the act. It is concluded that perennial problems of equity & access cannot be resolved by the delegation of responsibility for significant policy or funding decisions to localities; rather, questions about the role of the federal government in overcoming intralocal & interlocal disparities remain to be addressed. 3 Tables, 23 References. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Building a Domestic AIDS Treatment Activist Movement -- Introduction -- 1. ACTION=LIFE: Responding to AIDS on the Home Front -- 2. Bridging the Gap: Mobilizing a Global Response -- Part II. Forging a Global AIDS Treatment Activist Network -- Introduction -- 3. Many Places, One Goal: Connecting Global Actors -- 4. Win Some, Keep Going: Sustaining Global AIDS Treatment Activism -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Realizing Our Victories -- How You Can Become Involved in the Fight against Global AIDS -- Notes -- Index.

This article identifies two models of nonprofit organization roles: the economic model, which emphasizes business-like methods, and the voluntary spirit model, which emphasizes participation and membership. Highly visible, professional nonprofit organizations must constantly struggle with the extent to which they are to emphasize their role as efficient and competitive economic actors or their role as institutions important to our democracy. After years of shifting toward the economic model, professional nonprofits may be ripe for reform. Simultaneously, they are confronting and engaging with the Internet. This article draws on examples of health-based citizen cyber-organizations to derive lessons for how professional nonprofit organizations can recapture their voluntary spirit generally and places an emphasis on participation and membership. Also derived are specific lessons on how professional nonprofits can use cyber-strategies to do so.

Nonprofits are increasingly significant to public administration. The field also is confronting the Internet. In examining health-based nonprofits, the authors ask: How are traditional nonprofits and newer radical groups using the Internet? What is the relationship between these two types of groups? Traditional groups use the Internet for organizational maintenance whereas newer groups use it for the more "radical" pursuits of empowerment, advocacy, and the provision of solidary benefits. The authors identify three relationships between traditional groups and their newer, more radical counterparts: cooperation, competition, and specialization.

AbstractIn recent years, theory building on NGO–government relations has proliferated, but it has not accounted for changes in communications technology or for the quantitative and qualitative expansion of the NGO sector. In this article we look at relations between and among government and disease‐ and disorder‐based NGOs. We draw on cases in which we study relations between traditional NGOs and new, more radical and more exclusively Internet‐based health advocacy groups. We argue that, contrary to investigating NGO–government relations in isolation, our theories must account for antecedent variables including NGO delivery of benefits to members and supporters (including informational, purposive and solidary benefits) and the motivations for organizing. After summarizing how different kinds of health advocacy organizations use the Internet to organize and provide benefits to members and supporters, we show that these variables have important implications not only for the relations between NGOs, but between NGOs and government. Specifically, we conclude that theories that distinguish between 'cooperation' and 'co‐optation' in NGO–government relations may need to be adjusted to reflect the realities as they are perceived by NGOs. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

With more than 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS—and more than 25 million dead from related diseases since the early 1980s—the need to understand the causes and impact of the pandemic is manifest. In response, The Global Politics of AIDS explores power and politics at multiple levels, ranging from individual behavior to corporate boardrooms to international institutions and forces. The authors combine careful scholarship with sensitivity to both the suffering of those afflicted and the frustration of those seeking to bring about meaningful change. All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to AIDS-related charities