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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... cent of adults are marked in bold. Column 1 shows that a young adult in the United States in 2006 can expect to live until nearly eighty; a Zambian teenager to less than fifty (e20 is the number of additional years a 20year-old can ...
... cent of adults are marked in bold. Column 1 shows that a young adult in the United States in 2006 can expect to live until nearly eighty; a Zambian teenager to less than fifty (e20 is the number of additional years a 20year-old can ...
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... cent.5Today's generation faces a greater inequity in global life chances than its predecessors, and this is increasingly due to adult mortality and not child deaths (column 4 shows child mortality: 5q0 is the number of children who die ...
... cent.5Today's generation faces a greater inequity in global life chances than its predecessors, and this is increasingly due to adult mortality and not child deaths (column 4 shows child mortality: 5q0 is the number of children who die ...
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... cent and the median number of friends or relatives said to have died of AIDS was five. What these figures tell us is that most people readily accept that HIV/AIDS exists, even though many refuse to accept the possibility that they might ...
... cent and the median number of friends or relatives said to have died of AIDS was five. What these figures tell us is that most people readily accept that HIV/AIDS exists, even though many refuse to accept the possibility that they might ...
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... cent reported a personal loss. One of those who refuses to acknowledge a personal loss is President Thabo Mbeki, who has publicly said that he does not know anyone who has died of AIDS. Mbeki's position – still lacking a rational ...
... cent reported a personal loss. One of those who refuses to acknowledge a personal loss is President Thabo Mbeki, who has publicly said that he does not know anyone who has died of AIDS. Mbeki's position – still lacking a rational ...
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... cent. In Tanzania the number rose sharply from 1 to 12 per cent between 2000 and 2003 – a rise that cannot be explained by bereavements, which began rising sharply in the 1980s.The statistical relationship between personal loss and ...
... cent. In Tanzania the number rose sharply from 1 to 12 per cent between 2000 and 2003 – a rise that cannot be explained by bereavements, which began rising sharply in the 1980s.The statistical relationship between personal loss and ...
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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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