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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... Concern Giving Meaning to AIDS 'Normalizing'AIDS Sex and Power Domesticating AIDS – and Its Costs The Media and Overcoming Denial Pavement Radio 19 22 27 32 3 34 AIDS Activists: Reformers and Revolutionaries Confrontation and Its Limits ...
... Concern Giving Meaning to AIDS 'Normalizing'AIDS Sex and Power Domesticating AIDS – and Its Costs The Media and Overcoming Denial Pavement Radio 19 22 27 32 3 34 AIDS Activists: Reformers and Revolutionaries Confrontation and Its Limits ...
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... concern to African publics but that it rarely ranks at or near the top.7 The finding is consistent. Begun in 1999 by the University of Cape Town, the Afrobarometer is the first systematic attempt to poll public opinion in the continent ...
... concern to African publics but that it rarely ranks at or near the top.7 The finding is consistent. Begun in 1999 by the University of Cape Town, the Afrobarometer is the first systematic attempt to poll public opinion in the continent ...
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... concerned with HIV/AIDS, it follows that the politicians they vote into office will not be impelled to make AIDS a ... concern and imagining, activism and civil society, threats to social and political functioning, and power relations ...
... concerned with HIV/AIDS, it follows that the politicians they vote into office will not be impelled to make AIDS a ... concern and imagining, activism and civil society, threats to social and political functioning, and power relations ...
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... Concern According to any objective calculus, HIV/AIDS is the greatest contemporary threat to African lives and livelihoods. The continent, it seems, is in a state of collective denial. Personal denial is encountered everywhere ...
... Concern According to any objective calculus, HIV/AIDS is the greatest contemporary threat to African lives and livelihoods. The continent, it seems, is in a state of collective denial. Personal denial is encountered everywhere ...
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... concern is that HIV prevalence is an abstraction. The time-lag between infection with HIV and illness with AIDS is so long – eight to ten years – that a new epidemic consists mostly of symptom-less HIV infection rather than visible ...
... concern is that HIV prevalence is an abstraction. The time-lag between infection with HIV and illness with AIDS is so long – eight to ten years – that a new epidemic consists mostly of symptom-less HIV infection rather than visible ...
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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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