| During his 2003 State of the Union Address, President Bush announced his Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and asked Congress, over the next five years, to authorize the appropriation of ;This qualitative case study uses process-tracing methods to uncover the implementation of a privatization agenda in US foreign policy toward Africa. Data for analysis are essentially collected from a thorough examination of primary documents, including presidential speeches, memos, directives, executive orders, and Congressional hearings. Secondly, the literature and secondary documents are reviewed and analyzed, most being reports from governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations. To supplement this process, in-depth interviews were conducted with key policy officials, corporate lobbyists, and human rights activists. The findings are compared with and contrasted to the case of US foreign policy toward HIV/AIDS in Uganda, one key US partner in Africa among other PEPFAR focus countries. |
