HIV/AIDS Intervention in Ghana: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding AIDS Policy

This study is about how donor policy, NGO policy and public policy work together in Ghana's national strategic response to HIV and AIDS. The dissertation touches on two areas of public policy - development policy and health policy specifically relating to HIV/AIDS to determine congruity of the policy approaches of the three groups. Based on a survey done in Accra, Ghana in summer 2010 and on documentary sources of data collection, the study captures areas of agreement and disagreement of the three groups and discusses their effects on policy implementation. In broader terms, it analyzes assistance for HIV/AIDS in the context of international development aid and how current economic realities make such assistance unsustainable in the long term. It concludes by developing a prescriptive model of HIV policy intervention in Ghana with proposed revisions to the current policy model.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Markin, Nat Papa Kobina

Contributors dc:contributor

• Susan Hunter
• Scott Crichlow
• Christina Fattore
• Robert Maxon
• Karleen West

• Public policy
• Political science
• Public health

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/188

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1191