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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... normal way. There has not even been any very marked change in sexual behaviour, and society is not dominated by government demands that there should be. There is no paranoia and little in the way of new religious or death cults. In some ...
... normal way. There has not even been any very marked change in sexual behaviour, and society is not dominated by government demands that there should be. There is no paranoia and little in the way of new religious or death cults. In some ...
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... normal' social and moral order in the midst of the epidemic. Key to overcoming denial is the role of the media – not as a purveyor of messages about AIDS but as a news source that provokes discussion. Chapter 3 examines the nature of ...
... normal' social and moral order in the midst of the epidemic. Key to overcoming denial is the role of the media – not as a purveyor of messages about AIDS but as a news source that provokes discussion. Chapter 3 examines the nature of ...
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... , including their leaders and spokespeople. AIDS is more like climate change, an incremental process manifest in a quickening drumbeat of 'normal' events. It is only by historic Denial and How It Is Overcome 17 'Normalizing'AIDS.
... , including their leaders and spokespeople. AIDS is more like climate change, an incremental process manifest in a quickening drumbeat of 'normal' events. It is only by historic Denial and How It Is Overcome 17 'Normalizing'AIDS.
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... normal' events. It is only by historic accident that epidemic HIV occurred within a few years of the scientific discovery of lenti-viruses16 and the technologies that would make it possible to identify HIV at all. Had the pandemic ...
... normal' events. It is only by historic accident that epidemic HIV occurred within a few years of the scientific discovery of lenti-viruses16 and the technologies that would make it possible to identify HIV at all. Had the pandemic ...
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... normal' family, an effort which may at best draw a veil over the children's experiences and at worst draw them into abusive relationships with their caregivers. She describes the 'hidden wounds' of a society in denial, including the ...
... normal' family, an effort which may at best draw a veil over the children's experiences and at worst draw them into abusive relationships with their caregivers. She describes the 'hidden wounds' of a society in denial, including the ...
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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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