Paradoxically, the absence of HIV vaccine has been very structuring for global vaccine logics, and, more broadly, “global health” research. HIV vaccine research has oscillated between optimism and pessimism and has been central to the humanist justification for research in the South. From the attempt by the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Development Unit (VAD) on AIDS to become the centre of an “international” coordination effort to the diplomatic work involved with Thailand’s HIV research, I describe political contexts, and postcolonial power relations connected to HIV vaccine research. I argue that the failure of “international” coordination has paved the way for another politicization of global HIV vaccine research which led to a shift away from inter-state diplomacy to a “stateless” situation where the global vaccine logics contribute to the development of an experimental regime that relies on the capture of public resources and the availability of depoliticized biological subjects for the purposes of private valorization.

Piem David

Anthropologica

Anthropologica is the official publication of the Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne d"anthropologie. A biannual journal, it publishes peer-reviewed articles in both French and English devoted to social and cultural issues whether they are pre-historic, historic, contemporary, biological, linguistic, applied or theoretical in orientation.

Anthropologica is the official publication of the Canadian Anthropology Society. This biannual journal publishes peer-reviewed articles in both French and English, focusing on social and cultural issues across various domains, including prehistoric, historical, contemporary, biological, linguistic, applied, and theoretical perspectives.

《Anthropologica》是加拿大人类学会的官方出版物。这本双年刊以法语和英语发表经过同行评审的文章，内容涉及社会和文化问题，包括史前、历史、当代、生物、语言、应用或理论等各个方向。

Politics of HIV Vaccine Research from International to Global Health

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