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This article analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance (GHG) on the realization of social rights in poor countries. Focusing on the example of global HIV/AIDS politics. The article argues that new governance modes increase the participation of civil society groups and affected communities, but also that they are frequently instrumentalized by powerful actors to pursue their particular interests. In fact, increasing resources are mobilized for the fight against poverty-related diseases. The article concludes that, as the experience of HIV/AIDS politics, the conflicts around the TRIPS Agreement and the development of Global Public-Private Partnerships GPPPs suggest, GHG is characterized by a combination of moral values and material interests that does not guarantee a comprehensive realization of social rights, but which allows some progress in the fight against poverty-related diseases - a step toward realization of social rights.

Covers globalization of public health, funding for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, health as global security challenge, and HIV/AIDS in China; 5 articles. Contents: The globalization of health, by Gro Harlem Brundtland; One effort, one goal: the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, by Tommy G. Thompson; Health as a global security challenge, by Jonathan Ban; Pre-empting an HIV/AIDS disaster in China, by Drew Thompson; The impact of SARS on China, by Xiaohong Xu.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Foundations and Evolution of the Field -- 1 Mark Harrison (2006), 'Disease, Diplomacy and International Commerce: The Origins of International Sanitary Regulation in the Nineteenth Century', Journal of Global History, 1, pp. 197-217. -- 2 N. Howard-Jones (1950), 'Origins of International Health Work', British Medical Journal, 12, pp. 1032-37. -- 3 Walter R. Sharp (1947), 'The New World Health Organization', The American Journal of International Law, 41, pp. 509-30. -- 4 Charles E. Allen (1950), 'World Health and World Polities', International Organization, 4, pp. 27-43. -- 5 Laurie Garrett (1996), 'The Return of Infectious Disease', Foreign Affairs, 75, pp. 66-79. -- 6 Andrew T. Price-Smith (1999), 'Ghosts of Kigali: Infectious Disease and Global Stability at the Turn of the Century', International Journal, 54, pp. 426-42. -- 7 Caroline Thomas and Martin Weber (2004), 'The Politics of Global Health Governance: Whatever Happened to "Health for All by the Year 2000"?', Global Governance, 10, pp. 187-205. -- Part II Globalization and Global Health -- 8 David P. Fidler (2001), 'The Globalization of Public Health: The First 100 Years of International Health Diplomacy', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79, pp. 842-49. -- 9 Ilona Kickbusch and Evelyne de Leeuw (1999), 'Global Public Health: Revisiting Healthy Public Policy at the Global Level', Health Promotion International, 14, pp. 285-88. -- 10 Robert Beaglehole and Derek Yach (2003), 'Globalization and the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Disease: The Neglected Chronic Diseases of Adults', Lancet, 32, pp. 903-908. -- 11 Susan Peterson (2002), 'Epidemic Disease and National Security', Security Studies, 12, pp. 43-81

"In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike. Providing a concise and informative introduction to how global health is governed, this book: Explores the various ways in which we understand global health governance Explains the 'nuts and bolts' of the traditional institutions of global health governance, highlights key frameworks and treaties and their relative successes and failings Examines the actors in global health governance, their purpose, influence and impact Offers an in depth analysis of the effectiveness of global health interventions, focusing particularly on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Highlighting the wide variety of actors, issues and approaches involved, this work shows the complex nature of global health governance, forcing the reader to examine who or what really governs global health, to what outcome, and for whom"--Provided by publisher.

International audience ; AB STRACT This article analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance (GHG) on the realization of social rights in poor countries. Focusing on the example of global HIV/AIDS politics. The article argues that new governance modes increase the participation of civil society groups and affected communities, but also that they are frequently instrumentalized by powerful actors to pursue their particular interests. In fact, increasing resources are mobilized for the fight against poverty-related diseases. The article concludes that, as the experience of HIV/AIDS politics, the conflicts around the TRIPS Agreement and the development of Global Public-Private Partnerships GPPPs suggest, GHG is characterized by a combination of moral values and material interests that does not guarantee a comprehensive realization of social rights, but which allows some progress in the fight against poverty-related diseases — a step toward realization of social rights.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- The Essential Public Health Series -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- About the Text -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Principles and Goals of Global Health -- Vignettes -- Why Study Global Health? -- Health, Public Health, and Global Health -- One Health and Planetary Health -- Critical Global Health Concepts -- The Organization of Data in This Text -- The Sustainable Development Goals -- Case Study: Smallpox Eradication- The Most Famous Success Story -- Central Messages of This Text -- Chapter 2 Health Determinants, Measurements, and the Status of Health Globally -- Vignettes -- The Importance of Measuring Health Status -- The Determinants and Social Determinants of Health -- Key Health Indicators -- Vital Registration -- Main Messages -- Chapter 3 The Global Burden of Disease -- Vignettes -- Measuring the Burden of Disease -- Burden of Disease Data -- The Burden of Deaths and Disease Within Countries -- Risk Factors -- Demography and Health -- Progress in Health Status -- The Burden of Disease: Looking Forward -- The Development Challenge of Improving Health -- Case Study -- Main Messages -- Chapter 4 Health, Education, Equity, and the Economy -- Vignettes -- Introduction -- Health, Education, Productivity, and Poverty -- Health Disparities -- Health Expenditure and Health Outcomes -- Public and Private Expenditure on Health -- The Cost-Effectiveness of Health Interventions -- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Health and Development -- Case Studies -- Main Messages -- Chapter 5 Ethical and Human Rights Concerns in Global Health -- Vignettes -- The Importance of Ethical and Human Rights Issues in Global Health -- The Foundations for Health and Human Rights -- Selected Human Rights Issues -- Research with Human Subjects.

Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations that will be costly to carry out. Promising to provide financing as part of an intergovernmental call for commitment also activates a rights-based approach. For donor and recipient countries, a funding facility embodies an actualization of their commitment to a convention's collective undertaking to address a given issue. Donors signal their commitment through their contributions; recipients signal commitment through their efforts to use any support received to achieve the convention's objectives. This essay highlights the need for an FCGH financing facility, provides a preliminary sketch of what it should look like, and urges the facility's creators to adopt a bold and innovative approach that draws upon, but improves, current precedents. Adapted from the source document.

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