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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... living with HIV and AIDS is the most effective means of managing AIDS. It is an easily measured service-delivery operation. It is a humanitarian activity that prolongs people's lives and reduces the social and economic impacts of the ...
... living with HIV and AIDS is the most effective means of managing AIDS. It is an easily measured service-delivery operation. It is a humanitarian activity that prolongs people's lives and reduces the social and economic impacts of the ...
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... living with AIDS, as well as new infections. Relying on prevalence figures, we have only the vaguest grasp of whether prevention measures are having any impact at all. Even if African publics and international activists wanted to call ...
... living with AIDS, as well as new infections. Relying on prevalence figures, we have only the vaguest grasp of whether prevention measures are having any impact at all. Even if African publics and international activists wanted to call ...
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... living with HIV and AIDS. Lack of personal exposure to AIDS does not explain lack of public concern. There is a missing link. People overwhelmingly acknowledge that there is an AIDS epidemic, but do not take the next step of accepting ...
... living with HIV and AIDS. Lack of personal exposure to AIDS does not explain lack of public concern. There is a missing link. People overwhelmingly acknowledge that there is an AIDS epidemic, but do not take the next step of accepting ...
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... living with HIV and AIDS – and their partners and families – were marked out as sinful recipients of their just deserts from God.The epidemic itself was heralded as a harbinger of the apocalypse, a collective punishment from the ...
... living with HIV and AIDS – and their partners and families – were marked out as sinful recipients of their just deserts from God.The epidemic itself was heralded as a harbinger of the apocalypse, a collective punishment from the ...
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... living with HIV and AIDS – and he is careful to assert that they are victims rather than individual sinners or deviants. But he faithfully delineates the moral cosmology of political Islam and the place that AIDS occupies within it. Neo ...
... living with HIV and AIDS – and he is careful to assert that they are victims rather than individual sinners or deviants. But he faithfully delineates the moral cosmology of political Islam and the place that AIDS occupies within it. Neo ...
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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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