From Brown U: AIDS organizations and corruption in Nigeria

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22469532

Health Place. 2012 May;18(3):475-80.

AIDS NGOS and corruption in Nigeria.

Smith DJ.

Source

Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Box 1921, 128 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA.

Abstract

Using two ethnographic case studies, the intersecting dynamics of inequality, morality, and corruption are examined as they play out in Nigerian AIDS NGOs. To the Nigerian public, local AIDS organizations are widely seen as conduits for corruption. But local opinions of particular NGOs and their leaders turn less on whether donor resources were misused and more on the ways that people who accumulate the benefits of corruption use them socially. Nevertheless, discontent swirls about corruption in general, a fact that suggests a gradual change in people's understandings of the processes that produce inequality in Nigeria.