ABSTRACT
The comparative analysis of AIDS policy-making is still in its infancy. Country case studies are few,1 and comparisons between them even fewer.2 Comparative study offers an opportunity to learn not only about responses to AIDS, but also something about the policy contexts in which strategies of prevention in health are formulated. More widely still, as Weeks (1989, p. 13) has observed, ‘AIDS has…provided important insights into the complexities of policy formation in pluralist societies.’
