Low-hanging fruit: counting and accounting for children in PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa.

摘要: The article traces the social life of a policy that aimed to define and circumscribe ambiguous contested category ‘orphaned vulnerable children’ (or OVC) in South Africa at height ‘emergency response’ HIV/AIDS. Drawing on several months institutional ethnographic research conducted over course five years with African organisations receiving funding from US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief provide services ‘OVC’, project interrogates influence governmental forms counting accounting health practice Africa. Focusing experiences one organisation, describes process ‘translation’ typified by series disconnects between intentions exigencies implementation, structured flexible nature ‘OVC’ category. In this context, argues uncertainty produced implementation guidelines was not simpl...