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      • Sara L.M. Davis, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
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      June 2020
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      Socio-Legal Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Law, Anthropology
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      Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Subjects:
    Socio-Legal Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Law, Anthropology
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    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    In the global race to reach the end of AIDS, why is the world slipping off track? The answer has to do with stigma, money, and data. Global funding for AIDS response is declining. Tough choices must be made: some people will win and some will lose. Global aid agencies and governments use health data to make these choices. While aid agencies prioritize a shrinking list of countries, many governments deny that sex workers, men who have sex with men, drug users, and transgender people exist. Since no data is gathered about their needs, life-saving services are not funded, and the lack of data reinforces the denial. The Uncounted cracks open this and other data paradoxes through interviews with global health leaders and activists, ethnographic research, analysis of gaps in mathematical models, and the author's experience as an activist and senior official. It shows what is counted, what is not, and why empowering communities to gather their own data could be key to ending AIDS.

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    'Davis vividly shows that not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. As an anthropologist, a human rights activist and a former Global Fund official, Davis is an insider and an outsider, drawing a rich, nuanced and compelling portrait of the HIV response today.'

    Joseph Amon - Director of Global Health, Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health

    'In The Uncounted, Davis has successfully synthesized the complex decisions guiding bilateral and multilateral funding agencies in the HIV response. Given her own experience and that the book is informed by systematic reviews and key informant interviews, it is accurate while managing to provide a humanized narrative to international development.'

    Stefan Baral - Director of the Key Populations Program at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights

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