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A comparison of self-report and antiretroviral detection to inform estimates of antiretroviral therapy coverage, viral load suppression and HIV incidence in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Author: Huerga, Helena ; Shiferie, Fisseha ; Grebe, Eduard ; Giuliani, Ruggero ; Farhat, Jihane B ; Van-Cutsem, Gilles ; Cohen, Karen Date: 29 Sep 2017 Background: Accurately identifying individuals who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important to determine ART coverage and proportion on ART who are virally suppressed. ART is also included in recent infection testing algorithms used ... Read more c b
AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs and Unsafe Sex in Cape Town

Author: Grebe, Eduard ; Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2011 This paper uses multivariate logistic regressions to explore: (1) potential socio-economic, cultural, psychological and political determinants of AIDS conspiracy beliefs among young adults in Cape Town; and (2) whether these beliefs matter ... Read more
Civil society and the state in Uganda’s AIDS response

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 06 Jul 2014 This paper investigates state-civil society relations in the Ugandan AIDS response through a critical exploration of the history of Uganda’s ‘multi-sectoral’ and ‘partnership’ approaches, particularly as it pertains to The AIDS Support ... Read more
Civil society leadership in the struggle for AIDS treatment in South Africa and Uganda

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2012 This thesis is an attempt to theorise and operationalise empirically the notion of ‘civil society leadership’ in Sub-Saharan Africa. ‘AIDS leadership,’ which is associated with the intergovernmental institutions charged with coordinating the ... Read more
Complexity and the human sciences: beyond reductionism and relativism

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2011 We are faced with a fundamental problem for any science of complexity. To render the complex world understandable it is necessary to simplify it, but how can we render the complex simple without losing that which is distinctive and interesting ... Read more c b n d
Contingency, contestation and hegemony: The possibility of a non-essentialist politics of the left

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2010 Two major developments of the last two decades have radically undermined traditional justifications of leftist politics: the failure of 20th-century `socialist' experiments, and what might be termed the deessentializing movement in contemporary ... Read more
Development and social policy reform in Uganda: the slow emergence of a social protection agenda (1986-2014)

Author: Grebe, Eduard ; Mubiru, John Bosco Date: 2014 This paper provides a broad overview of the evolution of development and welfare policy-and the politics surrounding-it in Uganda, but focuses primarily on the increasing prominence of social protection, especially cash transfers, on the ... Read more c b n d
Donor agenda-setting, bureaucratic advocacy and cash transfers in Uganda (2002-2013)

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2014 This paper focuses on donors and-in particular-bureaucrats as agents of change in welfare policy reform processes in Uganda between 2002 and 2013. It shows how donors managed to establish cash transfers on the development policy agenda (but ... Read more c b n d
The evolution of social protection policy in Ghana’s ‘Fourth Republic’: Contributory social insurance reform and limited social assistance for the ‘extreme poor’ under NPP and NDC governments, 2000-2014

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: Aug 2015 During the 2000s, Ghana introduced substantial social protection policy reforms. The contributory pensions system was reformed from a single statutory defined-benefit scheme and a colonial-era unfunded scheme for civil servants to a new system ... Read more c b
Institutions of Integrity and the Integrity of Institutions: Integrity and ethics in the politics of developmental leadership

Author: Grebe, Eduard ; Woermann, Minka Date: 2011 In current debate, many developmental problems are attributed to the failure of leadership and, in particular, to the absence of either ‘ethical leadership’ or ‘integrity in leadership’. But what is ‘ethical leadership’? What is ‘developmental ... Read more
Interpreting HIV diagnostic histories into infection time estimates: analytical framework and online tool

Author: Grebe, Eduard ; Facente, Shelley N ; Bingham, Jeremy ; Pilcher, Christopher D ; Powrie, Andrew ; Gerber, Jarryd ; Priede, Gareth ; Chibawara, Trust ; Busch, Michael P ; Murphy, Gary ; Kassanjee, Reshma ; Welte, Alex Date: 26 Oct 2019 Abstract Background It is frequently of epidemiological and/or clinical interest to estimate the date of HIV infection or time-since-infection of individuals. Yet, for over 15 years, the only ... Read more
Leaders, networks and coalitions in the AIDS response: A comparison of Uganda and South Africa

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2009 This paper examines the question of AIDS leadership in Africa by means of a comparative study of two prominent civil society organisations that have been leaders in their respective countries' AIDS responses: The AIDS Support Organisation ... Read more
Networks of influence: A theoretical review and proposed approach to AIDS treatment activism

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2008 The topic of AIDS activism cuts across disciplines, is complex, under-theorised, and does not lend itself to neat theoretical explication. Furthermore, the story of the relationship between activism and the broad societal response to the ... Read more
The politics of social protection in a competitive African democracy: Explaining social protection policy reform in Ghana (2000-2014)

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: Aug 2015 The Kufuor (New Patriotic Party) administration of 2000-2008 implemented substantial reforms of the contributory social insurance system (including the introduction of a national health insurance scheme and a new ‘three tier’ pensions system), ... Read more c b
Prevalence and determinants of AIDS conspiracy and AIDS denialist beliefs and implications for risky sexual behaviour among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Grebe, Eduard Date: 2010 This paper explores the prevalence of AIDS conspiracy beliefs (about the origin of AIDS) and AIDS denialist beliefs amongst young adults in Cape Town. Since there is some evidence that AIDS conspiracy beliefs are associated with risky sex – ... Read more c b n d
Transnational mobilisation on access to medicines: The global movement around the imatinib mesylate case and its roots in the AIDS movement

Author: Grebe, Eduard ; Low, Marcus Date: 2014 Starting in 2006, a patent dispute emerged in India with significant implications for global access to medicine. An application by Novartis for a 'new formulation' patent on the beta crystalline form of the cancer drug imatinib mesylate was ... Read more c b n d
Transnational networks of influence in South African AIDS treatment activism

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2008 It is often asserted that civil society participation contributes to successful HIV/AIDS policy formulation and implementation. However, the relationship between civil society advocacy or activism and the broader societal response is complex, ... Read more
The Treatment Action Campaign's Struggle for AIDS Treatment in South Africa: Coalition-building Through Networks

Author: Grebe, Eduard Date: 2011 The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South Africa's � and probably the world's � most prominent AIDS activist movement, emerged in the context of state-supported AIDS denialism and government resistance to evidence-based responses such as ... Read more