03202nam 2200661Ia 450 991034513140332120200520144314.01-350-21837-51-84813-609-91-281-21558-91-78034-520-897866112155831-84813-054-610.5040/9781350218376(CKB)1000000000413581(OCoLC)647816290(CaPaEBR)ebrary10309136(SSID)ssj0000082367(PQKBManifestationID)11112409(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000082367(PQKBWorkID)10144084(PQKB)11016435(MiAaPQ)EBC329938(MiAaPQ)EBC4708474(OCoLC)313668797(CaBNVSL)9781350218376(EXLCZ)99100000000041358120060414d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAIDS and power disease and democracy in Africa /Alex de Waalebook edition.New York Zed Books in association with the International African Institute20061 online resource (158 p.) African argumentsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-84277-707-6 1-84277-706-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.African arguments.AIDS (Disease)Political aspectsSouth AfricaAIDS (Disease)South AfricaAIDS (Disease)Political aspectsAIDS (Disease)362.196/979200968De Waal Alexander120894MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910345131403321AIDS and power2565900UNINA