Global prescriptions : gendering health and human rights / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Thandika Mkandawire -- 1. Transnationalizing Women's Health Movements -- 2. The UN Conferences as Sites of Discursive Struggle: Gains and Fault Lines -- 3. HIV/AIDS and the Human Right to Health: on a Collision Course with Global Capitalism -- 4. Managing Health under Global Capitalism: Equity vs Productivity -- 5. Implementing International Norms at the National Level: Women's Health NGOs in the Firing Line -- 6. Conclusion: Reflections on Global Governance and Transnational Feminist Movements in an Era of Infinite War.

"The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conference, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It contains trenchant critiques of the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and of World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPs, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky argues, starkly illuminates the 'collision course' of transnational corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender, racial and regional equity and the human right to health."--BOOK JACKET.