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By Laëtitia Atlani-Duault

An anthropologist between reduction staff. Her aim: to review that unique tribe, humanitarian and improvement employees, in addition to their country and non-state companions, as they "export democracy" to post-soviet international locations of crucial Asia and the Caucasus. Her procedure: to affix the tribe for ten years. From manhattan to Alma-Ata, in terms of Geneva and Baku, La?titia Atlani-Duault presents either an realizing of the members operating within the box and a severe research of the sweeping political implications of NGO actions. a spotlight on supposedly "de-politicized" coverage parts (notably the prevention of HIV/AIDS epidemic) offers wider insights into the ambitions and practices of overseas relief employees in international locations beset by way of emerging poverty, drug trafficking, prostitution, and decaying schooling and future health prone. the writer additionally presents a wealthy canvas of human tales, from the "workshops" during which diametrically antagonistic political ways frequently conflict to the occasional small triumphs within which potent public health and wellbeing interventions are labored out. This well timed e-book may be of serious curiosity not just to students of post-soviet international locations, but additionally to these drawn to humanitarian and improvement reduction all over the world. it is going to even be appropriate for the research of the anthropology of improvement, in addition to clinical and political anthropology.

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Behind him a large glass bookcase displays Soviet medical and scientific publications, carefully arranged by size. Today he has brought together the heads of the Ministry teams directly involved in HIV control. The meeting has two objectives: to show the existence and the strength of the national model for containing the epidemic, and to make clear to the development agency that such a well-organized campaign merits strong financial support. All present are medically qualified Ministry of Health officials; according to the Soviet model, only medical and paramedical professionals are equipped to deal with HIV/AIDS.

The explosion No one was taking into account the consequences of the socio-economic transformation that was under way. In the mid-1990s, HIV incidence began to skyrocket, confirming studies which link international poverty and social vulnerability with HIV/AIDS in the region (Atlani 1998, Atlani-Duault 2005b; Atlani et al. 2000; Barnett and Whiteside 1997; Barnett, Ivanov and Slay 2004; Barnett et al. 2000; Buckley 2005a, 2005b; Danziger 1996; Dehne et al. 2000; Field 2004; Godinho et al. 2004, 2005; Hamers 1997, 2000; Hamers and Downs 2003; Rhodes et al.

Our police forces no longer work together, and if we have a case here, we can only search for the partners and friends in our country, not beyond the republic’s frontiers. This is very bad for controlling the epidemic! We need your money to revive the Soviet system of fighting AIDS. 1 The latter three are part of the most unstable area of the ex-USSR. The Caucasus has became the symbol of disorder with its wars, political irregularities, armed clashes between political adversaries, widespread terrorism, lack of security in large towns and transportation routes, and ‘loss of state control in some provinces which move increasingly towards autarchy’ (Urjewwick 1993: 253; Schoeberlein 2000b).

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