SOC208H1 Chapter 10: reading summary 10
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The article highlights the role how cultural context affect the policy-making. The author assesses the example of aids prevention failure and success in botswana and uganda, which explains the importance of cultural context. Compare botswana, a wealthy and well governing country, to uganda, a poorer and less well administered, uganda succeeded in. Aids prevention because of the well health behavior of the leadership, local communities and individual themselves. For uganda, the government encourages ngo, a faith-based and commitment group for marketing aids prevention, which is also a source of funding. In contrast, botswana leader lacks the openness and commitment, there is not a specific local group for aids prevention. On the other hand, uganda is well developed in the democratic governance in local level. In botswana case, every decision making in local level should be reported to naca for permission. In addition, the shortage of unqualified nurse and doctors in botswana result the high aids rate.
