AIDS and power : why there is no political crisis--yet /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Waal, Alex
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Cape Town : [London] : New York : Zed Books ; David Philip ; In association with the International African Institute and the Royal African Society ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:African arguments
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.