Exploring the roots of antagony in the safe male circumcision partnership in Botswana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Partnerships in global health and development governance have been firmly established as a tool to achieve effective outcomes. Botswana implements Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) for HIV prevention through a North-South partnership comprising the local Ministry of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (funded by PEPFAR) and Africa Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). The SMC partnership experienced significant antagony and the aim of this paper is to illuminate the actions and processes in the SMC program that contributed to that antagony.

Methods

Methods used to gather data include observation of the partners' planning and strategic meeting in 2012, in-depth interviews with lead officers at national le

SUBMITTER: Katisi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6147398 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature