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Hum Rights Rev (2015) 16:6568
DOI 10.1007/s12142-015-0352-8
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Kai-Lit Phua
Published online: 4 February 2015# Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Global Health Governance by Jeremy Youde Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2012
Global Health and International Relations by Colin McInnes and Kelley Lee Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2012
Global Health Governance by Jeremy Youde and Global Health and International Relations by Colin McInnes and Kelley Lee both cover the subjects of global health and global health governance (GHG), but they use different approaches. Youdes book is more descriptive, and optimistic on the impacts of civil society organizations, while McInnes and Lee argue that current global health actions and GHG structures are the outcome of political struggles and negotiations between various actors.
From Youdes point of view, global health governance can be defined as institutional arrangements that deal with health issues and challenges that require cross-border collective action. Contemporary GHG involves more than just nation-states and multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and UNAIDS. Increasingly, private actors and civil society organizations (CSOs) have become involved in the process. These private actors and CSOs include the WilliamJ. Clinton Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, the Carter Center, Oxfam International, and South Africas Treatment Action Campaign. There have been innovations such as the creation of UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) and the Global Fund (Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria). UNAIDS was formed mainly to coordinate activities of other HIV/ AIDS agencies, to raise awareness of the threat posed by the disease, to facilitate information-sharing, and to bring governments and non-governmental organizations together in combating this major health challenge. The Global Fund serves as a pure funding agency, and provides no personnel or technical assistance. Funds are raised from donor governments. Applications for funding by recipient governments must
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include CSOs as partners. In recent years, as much of 25 % of all international HIV/ AIDS funds, 67 % of TB funds, and 75 % of malaria funds have come from the Global Fund.
Two private...