Dionne uses fascinating cases across a number of sub-Saharan African countries to demonstrate how the mismatch between donor and citizen priorities limits the effectiveness of HIV programming, as does the sheer number of actors involved at multiple levels of governance. One of the book’s key contributions is its attention to AIDS interventions at the subnational level, particularly the role of village headmen, which Dionne situates with rich detail in what she aptly calls the global supply chain of AIDS interventions.
–Rachel Sullivan Robinson
Author of Intimate Interventions in Global Health: Family Planning and HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa and Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University
Doomed Interventions 