Semester
Fall
Date of Graduation
2012
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Type
PhD
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Political Science
Committee Chair
Susan Hunter
Committee Co-Chair
Scott Crichlow
Committee Member
Christina Fattore
Committee Member
Robert Maxon
Committee Member
Karleen West
Abstract
This study is about how donor policy, NGO policy and public policy work together in Ghana's national strategic response to HIV and AIDS. The dissertation touches on two areas of public policy - development policy and health policy specifically relating to HIV/AIDS to determine congruity of the policy approaches of the three groups. Based on a survey done in Accra, Ghana in summer 2010 and on documentary sources of data collection, the study captures areas of agreement and disagreement of the three groups and discusses their effects on policy implementation. In broader terms, it analyzes assistance for HIV/AIDS in the context of international development aid and how current economic realities make such assistance unsustainable in the long term. It concludes by developing a prescriptive model of HIV policy intervention in Ghana with proposed revisions to the current policy model.
Recommended Citation
Markin, Nat Papa Kobina, "HIV/AIDS Intervention in Ghana: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding AIDS Policy" (2012). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 188.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/188