MAJ-LIS FOLLÉR is Associate Professor in Latin American Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently working with AIDS related research in Brazil, with a focus on AIDS policy, civil society and race issues.
HÅKAN THÖRN is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His recent publications include
Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society,
Global Civil Society: More or Less Democracy? (co-edited) and
No Name Fever: AIDS in the Age of Globalization (co-edited with Maj-Lis Follér).