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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345131403321

Autore

De Waal Alexander

Titolo

AIDS and power : disease and democracy in Africa / / Alex de Waal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, 2006

ISBN

1-350-21837-5

1-84813-609-9

1-281-21558-9

1-78034-520-8

9786611215583

1-84813-054-6

Edizione

[ebook edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Collana

African arguments

Disciplina

362.196/979200968

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Political aspects - South Africa

AIDS (Disease) - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A manageable catastrophe -- Life expectancy and public opinion -- Structure of this book -- Denial and how it is overcome -- Private experience and public concern -- Giving meaning to AIDS -- 'Normalizing' AIDS -- Sex and power -- Domesticating AIDS, and its costs -- The media and overcoming denial -- Pavement radio -- AIDS activists : reformers and revolutionaries -- Confrontation and its limits -- 'Positive positive women' -- AIDS and elections -- Activist networks, local and global -- Transformations in governance -- New solidarities -- How African democracies withstand AIDS -- The issue of a lifetime -- 'Weber in reverse' -- How do African states 'really' function? -- Democratic demographics -- The economics of democracy -- 'New variant famine' -- The political benefits of AIDS -- Ugandan myths -- ABC : carefully mixed messages -- 'Fighting' AIDS -- On the difficulties of showing success -- Treatment regimes -- Power, choices and survival -- Lutaaya, 'alone' -- Democracies can manage AIDS -- Democracies do not prevent HIV.

Sommario/riassunto

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.