| Titre : |
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : politics, aid and globalization |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Adrian Flint, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Basingstoke (Royaume-Uni) : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Année de publication : |
2011 |
| Importance : |
xiv, 211 p. |
| Présentation : |
cartes |
| Format : |
22 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-230-22142-0 |
| Note générale : |
Notes bibliogr. p. 176-205. Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Aids (Maladie) -- Aspect politique -- Afrique subsaharienne ; Infections à VIH -- Afrique subsaharienne ; Sida -- Aspect social -- Afrique subsaharienne ; Sida -- Politique de l'État -- Afrique subsaharienne
|
| Index. décimale : |
616.979 |
| Résumé : |
"HIV/AIDS in Africa is heavily politicized and governments, policy makers and NGOs face a series of political dilemmas where responses to the problem of HIV/AIDS in Africa is concerned. This book focuses on the political issues that are associated with the pandemic and the political contexts in which the issue must be addressed"--
Sub-Saharan Africa has been called the 'ground zero' for HIV/AIDS. Without question, it has borne the brunt of the pandemic. However, simply explaining HIV/AIDS as the latest in a long list of disasters to befall sub-Saharan Africa offers little by way of a solution to what is arguably its most pressing crisis. Just as a famine is rarely an 'act of God', the extent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic was by no means predetermined. Here, its rapid spread and sheer severity is demystified. In some respects at least, the millions of ongoing HIV infections and AIDS deaths can be read as a gross failure of politics and governance around the globe. Flint explores the complexity of the interrelated factors and actions that have combined to facilitate the 'African AIDS crisis' and offers, in the continuing absence of a medical cure, an insight into how HIV/AIDS might be halted through effective governance at the national, regional and international level |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction -- Sex and disease: a historical perspective -- The origins of HIV/AIDS -- Gender, violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS -- Policymaking, dissidents ad denialists -- Traditional medicine ad the politics of the 'Witchcraft paradigm" -- The international response: multilateral and unilateral approaches -- Morality, behavioural change and
the search for a 'social vaccine' -- Governance, the international trading
system and access to antiretrovirals |
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : politics, aid and globalization [texte imprimé] / Adrian Flint, Auteur . - Basingstoke (Royaume-Uni) (Basingstoke (Royaume-Uni)) : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 . - xiv, 211 p. : cartes ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-0-230-22142-0 Notes bibliogr. p. 176-205. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Aids (Maladie) -- Aspect politique -- Afrique subsaharienne ; Infections à VIH -- Afrique subsaharienne ; Sida -- Aspect social -- Afrique subsaharienne ; Sida -- Politique de l'État -- Afrique subsaharienne
|
| Index. décimale : |
616.979 |
| Résumé : |
"HIV/AIDS in Africa is heavily politicized and governments, policy makers and NGOs face a series of political dilemmas where responses to the problem of HIV/AIDS in Africa is concerned. This book focuses on the political issues that are associated with the pandemic and the political contexts in which the issue must be addressed"--
Sub-Saharan Africa has been called the 'ground zero' for HIV/AIDS. Without question, it has borne the brunt of the pandemic. However, simply explaining HIV/AIDS as the latest in a long list of disasters to befall sub-Saharan Africa offers little by way of a solution to what is arguably its most pressing crisis. Just as a famine is rarely an 'act of God', the extent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic was by no means predetermined. Here, its rapid spread and sheer severity is demystified. In some respects at least, the millions of ongoing HIV infections and AIDS deaths can be read as a gross failure of politics and governance around the globe. Flint explores the complexity of the interrelated factors and actions that have combined to facilitate the 'African AIDS crisis' and offers, in the continuing absence of a medical cure, an insight into how HIV/AIDS might be halted through effective governance at the national, regional and international level |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction -- Sex and disease: a historical perspective -- The origins of HIV/AIDS -- Gender, violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS -- Policymaking, dissidents ad denialists -- Traditional medicine ad the politics of the 'Witchcraft paradigm" -- The international response: multilateral and unilateral approaches -- Morality, behavioural change and
the search for a 'social vaccine' -- Governance, the international trading
system and access to antiretrovirals |
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