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China has been contributing to new approaches to global governance. The Health Silk Road (HSR), a significant component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), was proposed by China in 2016. This paper claims that HSR is a new institution introduced alongside the existing WHO-led multilateral health system, and its relationship with the existing system can be described as layering. Having explored the new development of HSR during COVID-19, this paper further argues that while HSR has its unique strength in making contributions to global health governance and economic recovery, it faces a prominent issue of securitisation in the context of China-U.S. strategic competition, suspicion of the quality of medical products and sectoral fragmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 30 years of public health policy based on a rational-choice model of behaviour, women in the USA continue to have sex, get pregnant and give birth to children in ways that do not conform to the behavioural prescriptions of family planning programmes. Traditionally, USA social science research has attempted to explain why women deviate from public health behavioural models. In this paper, narrative theory is employed to reorient the study of women's sexual behaviour. Specifically, reproductive life histories are analysed to illuminate how women interpret their reproductive experiences and how culturally available interpretative materials, in particular prescriptive ideals and explanatory narratives, may prospectively influence women's reproductive experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the obstacles and opportunities experienced by a diverse group of persons living with HIV and AIDS in accessing medical and social services. A social networks approach is used to analyse data from 56 in-depth interviews conducted with persons living with HIV and AIDS in Orange County, California. From this analysis, the service pathways by White/Caucasian gay men, Latina/Hispanic women who speak only Spanish, and injecting drug users of diverse ethnicities are used to illustrate the influence of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation on service access. Implications for service provision and future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]