AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – YetBloomsbury Publishing, 29 февр. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 161 One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social fabric is not being ripped apart by bands of unsocialized orphan children. AIDS and Power explains why social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power. Partly because of pervasive denial, AIDS is not a political priority for electorates, and therefore not for democratic leaders either. AIDS activists have not directly challenged the political order, instead using international networks to promote a rights-based approach to tackling the epidemic. African political systems have proven resilient in the face of AIDS's stresses, and rulers have learned to co-opt international AIDS efforts to their own political ends. In contrast with these successes, African governments and international agencies have a sorry record of tackling the epidemic itself. AIDS and Power concludes without political incentives for HIV prevention, this failure will persist. |
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... African Institute and the Royal African Society in 2006 by In Southern Africa: David Philip (an imprint of New Africa Books), 99 Garfield Road, Claremont 7700, South Africa In the rest of the world: Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street ...
... African Institute and the Royal African Society in 2006 by In Southern Africa: David Philip (an imprint of New Africa Books), 99 Garfield Road, Claremont 7700, South Africa In the rest of the world: Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street ...
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... South Africa. The analysis of Uganda owes much to Tim Allen and Joseph Tumushabe. Parts of the analysis in Chapter 4 were presented at a conference at the Clingendael Institute in the Hague in May 2005, and benefited from the discussion ...
... South Africa. The analysis of Uganda owes much to Tim Allen and Joseph Tumushabe. Parts of the analysis in Chapter 4 were presented at a conference at the Clingendael Institute in the Hague in May 2005, and benefited from the discussion ...
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... Africa are not traumatized. Governments are not threatened by accusations of mishandling the epidemic. Not a single protest demonstration has occurred. Life goes on in a surprisingly ... South Africa] by AIDS 1: A Manageable Catastrophe.
... Africa are not traumatized. Governments are not threatened by accusations of mishandling the epidemic. Not a single protest demonstration has occurred. Life goes on in a surprisingly ... South Africa] by AIDS 1: A Manageable Catastrophe.
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... South Africa] by AIDS patients begging for drugs to treat their otherwise fatal disease was broken up by riot police. The demonstrators, most of whom were HIV-positive women, were beaten, and 10 were shot. The next day in Moscow, people ...
... South Africa] by AIDS patients begging for drugs to treat their otherwise fatal disease was broken up by riot police. The demonstrators, most of whom were HIV-positive women, were beaten, and 10 were shot. The next day in Moscow, people ...
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... South Africa Sierra Leone Malawi Zambia Botswana 61.9 57.9 52.4 48.6 41.1 39.6 35.5 33.0 30.7 27.3 24.9 81.7 77.4 68.7 62.4 48.3 46.4 45.7 37.4 37.5 36.5 38.0 <0.1 0.6 0.7 0.2 4.8 1.2 21.5 7.0 14.2 16.5 37.3 4 8 35 69 200 262 66 283 178 ...
... South Africa Sierra Leone Malawi Zambia Botswana 61.9 57.9 52.4 48.6 41.1 39.6 35.5 33.0 30.7 27.3 24.9 81.7 77.4 68.7 62.4 48.3 46.4 45.7 37.4 37.5 36.5 38.0 <0.1 0.6 0.7 0.2 4.8 1.2 21.5 7.0 14.2 16.5 37.3 4 8 35 69 200 262 66 283 178 ...
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AIDS Activists Reformers and Revolutionaries | 34 |
How African Democracies Withstand AIDS | 66 |
The Political Benefits of AIDS | 94 |
Power Choices and Survival | 117 |
Notes | 124 |
Bibliography | 133 |
Index | 144 |
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