Erling Høg

• PhD, MSc, MA
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

In this paper, we identify behaviours in live bird commodity chains in Chattogram, Bangladesh, which may influence the risk of pathogen emergence and transmission: the nature of poultry trade, value appropriation and selling sick or infected birds. Examining the reasons why actors engage in these behaviours, we emphasise the politics of constraints...

Antibiotics are used in aquaculture to maintain the health and welfare of stocks; however, the emergence and selection of antibiotic resistance in bacteria poses threats to humans, animals and the environment. Mitigation of antibiotic resistance relies on understanding the flow of antibiotics, residues, resistant bacteria and resistance genes throu...

This paper anthropologically explores how key actors in the Chittagong live bird trading network perceive biosecurity and risk in relation to avian influenza between production sites, market maker scenes and outlets. They pay attention to the past and the present, rather than the future, downplaying the need for strict risk management, as outbreaks...

AVIAN INFLUENZA IN BANGLADESH: ETHNOGRAPHY, BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS AND EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIOURAL EPIDEMIOLOGY IN ONE HEALTH – A PROOF OF CONCEPT Using an innovative combination of ethnography, epidemiology and techniques adapted from behavioural economics we examined the poultry transaction chain (a concept broader than value chain) around Chittagon...

Almost all human infections by avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are transmitted from poultry. A systematic review was conducted to identify practices associated with human infections, their prevalence, and rationale. Observational studies were identified through database searches. Meta-analysis produced combined odds ratio estimates. The prevalence o...

Eastern Europe and the Arab world inhabit a vast number of countries. This emerging issue brief highlights one aspect of the diversity of experiences: pockets of concentrated HIV epidemics in which people tend to hide, being afraid of coming forth for HIV testing and AIDS care. The other side of the coin remains an inefficient HIV and AIDS service...

The large-scale introduction of HIV and AIDS services in Mozambique from 2000 onwards occurred in the context of deep political commitment to sovereign nation-building and an important transition in the nation's health system. Simultaneously, the international community encountered a willing state partner that recognised the need to take action aga...

This chapter examines how the relation between ‘state fragility’, ‘state capacity’ and ‘global health’ influences the strengths and weaknesses for establishing and maintaining transna-tional ‘partnerships for health’. Such analytical differentiation promotes understanding how and why current approaches to ‘health development’, ‘humanitarian interve...

I argue in this thesis that successful access and delivery of antiretroviral treatment essentially depends on the interrelatedness between individual, social, and political processes. It takes the case of Mozambique, a hard-hit poor country in Southern Africa, which offers free ARVs on a 'first come first served' basis, supported by all major inter...

The main purpose of this article is to qualify HIV/AIDS in relation to state fragility in Mozambique, based on fieldwork and literature review to contextualize it within other African countries facing the HIV epidemic. This is pursued by an analysis of epidemic evolution, ethnography of treatment access and delivery, HIV fragility, and absorptive c...

The purpose of this article is to analyse undocumented immigrants' right to access to health care and their access in practice. Undocumented immigrants have a right to equal access to health care. Access to more than emergency health care in Denmark is dependent on immigration status. Medical doctors' duty to treat does not apply to non-emergency h...

This article explores key issues related to the agitation for human rights in Mozambique and its weak performance power. I define human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS as well as rights-based approaches to development and health. Based on fieldwork, I describe and analyse how human rights are received and applied in HIV/AIDS organisations in Moza...

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