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A Critical Examination Of The Social Organizations Within Canadian Ngos In The Provision Of Hiv/Aids Health Work In Tanzania, Oona M. St-Amant
A Critical Examination Of The Social Organizations Within Canadian Ngos In The Provision Of Hiv/Aids Health Work In Tanzania, Oona M. St-Amant
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The purpose of this study was to critically examine the social organizations within Canadian non-government organizations (NGOs) in the provision of HIV/AIDS health work in Tanzania. Using a post-Marxist theoretical framework, I employed the tools of institutional ethnography to understand how distinct forms of coordinated work are reproduced and embedded within the institution of Canadian NGOs at the local site of lived experiences.
Multiple, concurrent methods, including text analysis, participant observation and in-depth interviews, were utilized. Data collection occurred over approximately a 19-month period of time in Tanzania and Canada. Interviews were conducted with health work volunteers, NGO administrators and …