AIDS policy response in New Zealand: consensus in crisis.
Typically, Western governments have aimed to construct consensus over HIV/AIDS policy. The history of policy formation in New Zealand is examined, and is found to reflect the general pattern. There was a deliberate strategy designed to establish the broadest possible consensus. However, partly because of this breadth, the consensus was nevertheless fraught with contradiction and tension.
Christchuch School of Medicine, New Zealand.
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