Alex de Waal

AIDS and Power

Why There is No Political Crisis - Yet

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HIV/AIDS, Africa's greatest human tragedy for over a century, is an immense challenge to democrats and activists. Can governments survive an epidemic that has cut life expectancy in half, further burdened fragile economies, and created millions of orphans? Why, twenty years into the crisis, are democratic governments performing so poorly in tackling the disease? AIDS and Africa argues that existing approaches to the epidemic are driven by interests and frameworks that fail to engage with African resilience and creativity. Already, African communities have confounded some of the worst predictions of disaster.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84277-706-0
EAN: 9781842777060
Produktnummer: 21954515
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D0.0 cm 268 g
Gewicht: 268
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Alex de Waal is a writer and activist on African issues. He is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard; Director of the Social Science Research Council program on AIDS and social transformation; and a director of Justice Africa in London. In his twenty-year career, he has studied the social, political and health dimensions of famine, war, genocide and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes. He has been at the forefront of mobilizing African and international responses to these problems. His books include, 'Famine that Kills: Darfur Sudan,' (1989, revised 2004), 'Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa,' (1997), 'Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa,' (2004) and (with Julie Flint) 'Darfur: A Short History of a Long War' (Zed Books, 2005).