LEADER 03202nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910345131403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-350-21837-5 010 $a1-84813-609-9 010 $a1-281-21558-9 010 $a1-78034-520-8 010 $a9786611215583 010 $a1-84813-054-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350218376 035 $a(CKB)1000000000413581 035 $a(OCoLC)647816290 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10309136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000082367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11112409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000082367 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10144084 035 $a(PQKB)11016435 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC329938 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4708474 035 $a(OCoLC)313668797 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350218376 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000413581 100 $a20060414d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAIDS and power $edisease and democracy in Africa /$fAlex de Waal 205 $aebook edition. 210 $aNew York $cZed Books in association with the International African Institute$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (158 p.) 225 1 $aAfrican arguments 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-84277-707-6 311 $a1-84277-706-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aAIDS and Power explains why social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power. 410 0$aAfrican arguments. 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$xPolitical aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$zSouth Africa 615 0$aAIDS (Disease)$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aAIDS (Disease) 676 $a362.196/979200968 700 $aDe Waal$b Alexander$0120894 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345131403321 996 $aAIDS and power$92565900 997 $aUNINA