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This chapter offers an ethnographic account of the near-demise of the Pakistani federal government’s HIV/AIDS bureaucracy in 2011, which resulted from the abrupt withdrawal of funding by the World Bank and the devolution of the federal Ministry of Health. This turn of events left bureaucrats struggling to keep their employment prospects intact and triggered an unhealthy competition between colleagues. As they belatedly recognized, the vulnerability of the HIV/AIDS bureaucracy, due to its dependence on donor funding, raised questions about the future of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in Pakistan. The chapter points out contradictions in the logic of flexible organizations, which turn out to be more susceptible to, rather than adept at surviving, crisis.
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Qureshi, A. (2018). Surviving Hard Times. In: AIDS in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6220-9_5
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