The Hospital as a Space for Circulation of a Globalized Norm
This article describes how a norm, participation of people living with HIV/AIDS in the health system, developed and promoted internationally by HIV institutions, is interpreted in hospitals in Cambodia. Based on an ethnographic study in four Cambodian hospitals (in Phnom Penh, Battambang, Siem Reap and Kandal) between 2006 and 2008, this analysis highlights the different meanings of this norm, the leeway that local actors have with regard to this norm and the influence of the social context on the mechanism of its interpretation.