The Politics of HIV/AIDS In China

This article provides a political analysis of the sequence and substance of China’s policy response toward HTV/AIDS. Using an analytical framework that integrates historical institutionalism with policy process, the article examines how political institutions interacted with three policy streams (problem identification, policy generation, and elite politics) to delay an effective Chinese government response to the HTV/AIDS epidemic. It also demonstrates how the political, problem, and policy streams joined in the 2003 SARS crisis to prompt the government to take decisive action on HTV/AIDS.