ABSTRACT
This chapter examines several issues that have been influenced by transnational civil society (TNCS) organizing that include: HIV prevention for sex workers, non-governmental organization (NGO) representation on the Global Fund's country coordinating mechanism (CCM), protection from discrimination for people living with HIV, legal compensation for persons accidentally infected with HIV, and China's positions on access to essential medicines. It also examines a number of issues to illustrate shifts in Chinese social justice attitudes and policy evolution on AIDS, noting in each case limits to wholesale adoption related to China's own cultural norms and attitudes deriving from Confucian belief systems or the tenets of Chinese political culture. The actions of global transnational advocacy networks such as the Treatment Action Campaign, a South Africa-based advocacy organization, played a leading role in advocating for access to essential AIDS medicines, challenging global pharmaceutical companies, through lawsuits and advocacy and international donors to bring down the price of AIDS drugs.
