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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... 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 disease. Treatment has a ready constituency ...
... 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 disease. Treatment has a ready constituency ...
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... development. Perhaps more importantly, African rulers have found means of minimizing the dangers posed by AIDS, and indeed turning the epidemic to political advantage. A case study of this is A Manageable Catastrophe 9.
... development. Perhaps more importantly, African rulers have found means of minimizing the dangers posed by AIDS, and indeed turning the epidemic to political advantage. A case study of this is A Manageable Catastrophe 9.
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... means for the moral universe and the power relations embedded therein. Perhaps the most famous American exponent of AIDS as sin and punishment for sin was the Reverend Jerry Falwell, who in 1987 attributed the epidemic to divine ...
... means for the moral universe and the power relations embedded therein. Perhaps the most famous American exponent of AIDS as sin and punishment for sin was the Reverend Jerry Falwell, who in 1987 attributed the epidemic to divine ...
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... mean-spirited and punitive ideology ... linking AIDS with transgression'.13 Other Christians, however, have stressed forgiveness, repentance and faithfulness, while youth leaders have condemned the church for its hostility to condoms ...
... mean-spirited and punitive ideology ... linking AIDS with transgression'.13 Other Christians, however, have stressed forgiveness, repentance and faithfulness, while youth leaders have condemned the church for its hostility to condoms ...
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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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