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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... less than fifty (e20 is the number of additional years a 20year-old can expect to live, while e0 is life expectancy at birth). From a class of 100 ninth-grade American girls aged fifteen, 90 will see their sixtieth birthdays. Less than ...
... less than fifty (e20 is the number of additional years a 20year-old can expect to live, while e0 is life expectancy at birth). From a class of 100 ninth-grade American girls aged fifteen, 90 will see their sixtieth birthdays. Less than ...
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... less HIV infection rather than visible sickness and death from AIDS. The epidemic started late in South Africa and the country has only recently begun to experience mounting numbers of illnesses and deaths, which could help explain the ...
... less HIV infection rather than visible sickness and death from AIDS. The epidemic started late in South Africa and the country has only recently begun to experience mounting numbers of illnesses and deaths, which could help explain the ...
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... unequivocally that it is neither sin nor punishment, and that the doctrine of the lesser of two evils indicates that condoms should not always be condemned, and less harmful ways of drug use should be 16 AIDS and Power.
... unequivocally that it is neither sin nor punishment, and that the doctrine of the lesser of two evils indicates that condoms should not always be condemned, and less harmful ways of drug use should be 16 AIDS and Power.
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Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet Alex de Waal. condemned, and less harmful ways of drug use should be promoted.14The Catholic church, although late in responding to AIDS and profoundly compromised by papal opposition to condoms ...
Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet Alex de Waal. condemned, and less harmful ways of drug use should be promoted.14The Catholic church, although late in responding to AIDS and profoundly compromised by papal opposition to condoms ...
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... less important than participating in the public affirmation of a lie.17 'Normalization' in the sense of adjusting reality to take account of the miseries of AIDS can be found in many places, when it is looked for. Even the statistics ...
... less important than participating in the public affirmation of a lie.17 'Normalization' in the sense of adjusting reality to take account of the miseries of AIDS can be found in many places, when it is looked for. Even the statistics ...
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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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