AIDS Drugs For All: Social Movements and Market Transformations

Ethan B. Kapstein (Arizona State University),Joshua W. Busby (University of Texas, Austin)

AIDS Drugs For All: Social Movements and Market Transformations
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 August 2013
Pages
337
ISBN
9781107036147

AIDS Drugs For All: Social Movements and Market Transformations

Ethan B. Kapstein (Arizona State University),Joshua W. Busby (University of Texas, Austin)

Drawing on a rich set of interviews and surveys, this book shows how the global AIDS treatment advocacy movement helped millions in the developing world gain access to life-saving medication. The movement achieved this by transforming the market for AIDS drugs from one which was ‘low volume, high price’ to one based on access for all. The authors suggest that a movement’s ability to transform markets depends upon whether: (1) markets are contestable; (2) they have framed their arguments to resonate across their target audiences; (3) the movement itself has a coherent goal; (4) the costs are low, or the benefit-to-cost ratio is favourable; and, finally, (5) institutions are present to reward continued achievement of the new market principle. These insights are applied to a range of other cases including malaria, maternal mortality, water/diarrheal disease, non-communicable diseases, education, climate change, the ivory trade, sex trafficking and the Atlantic slave trade.

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