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dc.contributor.authorBurman, Christopher J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-18T12:46:55Z
dc.date.available2018-07-18T12:46:55Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationBurman, C.J. 2018. The Taming Wicked Problems Framework: a plausible biosocial contribution to ‘ending AIDS by 2030’. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 14(1):107-118. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1817-4434
dc.identifier.issn2415-2005 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/28545
dc.description.abstractIn 2014, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published the Gap Report, which states that a new biosocial response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic is required to reinforce the biomedical strategy – Vision 90:90:90 – which is designed to end AIDS by 2030. This article provides a descriptive account of how a community–university partnership developed and piloted an innovative, transdisciplinary approach to HIV and AIDS management that could represent a nascent biosocial candidate to reinforce the biomedical strategy. The biosocial strategy has been labelled as the Taming Wicked Problems Framework that is influenced by ontological perspectives associated with complexity theory. The article focuses on how the Taming Wicked Problems Framework was developed by co-opting and repurposing management techniques associated with complexity into an action-oriented HIV and AIDS combination intervention. Three years after the pilot began, the Taming Wicked Problems Framework continues to provision the partnership with opportunities to ‘tame’ non-linear, biosocial aspects of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in rural South Africa. However, with the benefit of hindsight, there are some improvements and caveats that are highlighted so that future applications will be more robust. It is suggested that the Taming Wicked Problems Framework could represent one localised biosocial response that could contribute to ending AIDS by 2030.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/td.v14i1.401
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSIS
dc.titleThe taming wicked problems framework: a plausible biosocial contribution to ‘ending AIDS by 2030’en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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