Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China, Elsa L. Fan.

In "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" by Elsa L. Fan, the author explores the impact of business logics on global health, specifically in the context of HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. The author argues that the dominance of donor-imposed technical interventions has transformed MSM from subjects of care into commodities of care. The book examines the effects of performance-based financing on local health strategies, community-based organizations, and the MSM community. It also highlights the lack of humanity and compassionate care in technocratic approaches to testing interventions. While the book provides important insights into the unintended consequences of profit-oriented health interventions, it lacks in-depth analysis and fails to address underlying power dynamics in global health funding. Overall, the book emphasizes the importance of qualitative research in uncovering injustices in health programming. [Extracted from the article]