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Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice

Volume 3, Supplement 2, 2008

Special Issue: The Contested Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

‘New bottle, but old wine’: From family planning to HIV/AIDS in post-Doi Moi Vietnam* *This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “From family planning to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Shifting priorities, remaining gaps”, which is available as part of the e-book, SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts. SexPolitics can be found online at <http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/home/>. *This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “From family planning to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Shifting priorities, remaining gaps”, which is available as part of the e-book, SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts. SexPolitics can be found online at <http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/home/>. <!--${label: article.frontnotes.viewall}-->

‘New bottle, but old wine’: From family planning to HIV/AIDS in post-Doi Moi Vietnam*
*This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “From family planning to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Shifting priorities, remaining gaps”, which is available as part of the e-book, SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts. SexPolitics can be found online at <http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/home/>. *This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “From family planning to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Shifting priorities, remaining gaps”, which is available as part of the e-book, SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts. SexPolitics can be found online at <http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/home/>. View all notes

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DOI:
10.1080/17441690801980995
L. M. Gianga* & N. T. M. Huongb

pages 76-91

Available online: 10 Jul 2008
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This paper begins with an observation that during the past two decades HIV/AIDS has emerged as a new public health priority in Vietnam and has commanded increasing attention and resources from both the government and the donor community. By juxtaposing HIV/AIDS with family planning, another social and health priority that preceded, and overlapped with, HIV/AIDS for a large part of the 1990s, we show two major gaps that have undermined both programmes. One is the lack of a strong civil society, that could have served as advocates for change, especially outside the government and the donor community. The other is the desire for control of women's bodies and sexuality that has been driven by the ever shifting project of nation building. We argue that these two major gaps represent more continuity than discontinuity in the way sexual and reproductive health issues are approached in Vietnam despite the seeming shift in priority that the emergence of HIV/AIDS suggests.

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*This article is based on a longer study that was developed in collaboration with Sexuality Policy Watch, with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. For an extended discussion of the issues examined in this article, see “From family planning to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Shifting priorities, remaining gaps”, which is available as part of the e-book, SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky, and Robert Sember, 2007. This e-book includes a series of case studies, as well as a crosscutting analysis, focused on the politics of sexual health and rights in eight countries and two institutional contexts. SexPolitics can be found online at <http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/home/>.

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  • a Centre for Research and Training on HIV/AIDS, Hanoi Medical University, New York, USA
  • b Centre for Community Health Research and Development, Hanoi, Vietnam

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