Global Health Governance und UNAIDS – Elemente eines globalen Integrationsmodus?

Abstract

This article puts HIV/Aids in a broader context: On the background that globalisation causes social problems and a greater interdependence in the world and infectious diseases in developing countries are seen as a danger also for the industrialised countries, this article asks if the global politics on HIV/Aids and especially the Joint UN-Programm on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) perform as elements of international efforts to mitigate inequalities, poverty and conflicts. UNAIDS is described and analysed in the context of „post-fordist“ globalisation and structures of „global health governance“. UNAIDS can be defined as a kind of typical post-fordist actor, because it tries to foster the fight against poverty related infectious diseases in developing countries on a global scale and in cooperation with non-governmental organisations and publicprivate partnerships. However – and this is the main thesis of this article – because of powerful nation states and their interests and because of other powerful international organisations (like the World Bank), UNAIDS is a weak actor of global health governance and the evolving global mode of integration.