South Africa's Civil Society Organizations and AIDS Treatment Access

Ida Susser博士将与同事Robert Susser博士沿着研究种族隔离后南非新兴民主国家的发展以及该国处理艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的有争议政策的演变。这两位研究人员都是非洲艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究领域的专家，他们确定了过去15年的关键时期进行分析：种族隔离的最后几年;新国家的早期;以及自1999年以来，南非为治疗艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的适当国家政策进行了长期斗争。他们建议利用关键事件分析，审查艾滋病毒/艾滋病运动与不断变化的政治形式和公民观念之间的相互作用，特别是对妇女而言。他们将对重要人物进行深入采访，收集口述历史，并对来自非洲和美国档案馆的媒体和其他文件进行文本分析。此外，他们还将与来自开普敦大学的南非学生合作，在南非主要的艾滋病毒/艾滋病治疗非政府组织的中央和区域办事处进行参与观察人种学研究。这项开创性的研究将进一步了解当代艾滋病相关的社会运动，公民和民间社会的相关项目之间的关系，以及不断变化的科学和技术的可能性的快速传播，通过查看艾滋病周围的活动与民主的出现。该项目将有助于微调有关新国家民主化的社会科学理论，以及制定关键健康和社会问题的地方政策的复杂过程，其影响往往远远超出它们出现的背景。 这项研究还将支持南非社会科学家的培训。

Dr. Ida Susser, along with colleague Dr. Robert Sember, will undertake research on the development of the emerging democratic state in post-apartheid South Africa and the evolution of the state's controversial policy for dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The researchers, both experts in the area of HIV/AIDS research in Africa, have identified key periods over the past fifteen years for their analysis: the final years of apartheid; the early years of the new state; and the period since 1999, when there have been prolonged battles over appropriate state policies for treating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Using key event analysis, they propose to examine the interplay between HIV/AIDS movements and changing political forms and notions of citizenship, particularly for women. They will conduct in-depth interviews of important players, collect oral histories, and do text analysis of media and other documents from archives in Africa and the United States. In addition, working with South African students from the University of Cape Town, they will do participant observation ethnography at central and regional offices of the main South African non-governmental organization concerned with HIV/AIDS treatment. This groundbreaking research will further understanding of the relationships between contemporary AIDS-related social movements, related projects of citizenship and civil society, and the rapid spread of changing scientific and technological possibilities, by looking at the way activism around AIDS is related to the emergence of democracy. The project will help fine-tune social science theory about democratization in new states, and the complex processes by which local policies for critical health and social issues are developed, often with effects felt far beyond context in which they emerged. The research also will support the training of South African social scientists.