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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... leaders' responses lack urgency and scale. Governments find resources for many things, but AIDS programmes are rarely near the top of their list. There are straightforward reasons for this neglect.African electors are not demanding that ...
... leaders' responses lack urgency and scale. Governments find resources for many things, but AIDS programmes are rarely near the top of their list. There are straightforward reasons for this neglect.African electors are not demanding that ...
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... leaders, and it has thereby ensured that democracy in African is not threatened by the epidemic and may even be strengthened. With a few important exceptions where different intersecting stresses come together, AIDS is unlikely to cause ...
... leaders, and it has thereby ensured that democracy in African is not threatened by the epidemic and may even be strengthened. With a few important exceptions where different intersecting stresses come together, AIDS is unlikely to cause ...
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... leaders, including AIDS activists. But we should not mistake managing the political and social threats emanating from the AIDS epidemic for an effective response to the immense human tragedy of HIV/AIDS itself.The concluding chapter ...
... leaders, including AIDS activists. But we should not mistake managing the political and social threats emanating from the AIDS epidemic for an effective response to the immense human tragedy of HIV/AIDS itself.The concluding chapter ...
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... leaders, news stories and NGO programmes, all hammering home the message that HIV/ AIDS is a risk. In the 2003 round of the Afrobarometer survey, more than half of respondents in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia ...
... leaders, news stories and NGO programmes, all hammering home the message that HIV/ AIDS is a risk. In the 2003 round of the Afrobarometer survey, more than half of respondents in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia ...
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... leaders cannot wait for the Day of Judgment and are issuing verdict and sentence themselves. For example, in 1987 the Christian Council of Tanzania described AIDS as God's punishment for human beings' sins, and others have promoted 'a ...
... leaders cannot wait for the Day of Judgment and are issuing verdict and sentence themselves. For example, in 1987 the Christian Council of Tanzania described AIDS as God's punishment for human beings' sins, and others have promoted 'a ...
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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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