Aids To Democracy

Author : Peter Baldwin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520251472

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Disease and Democracy by Peter Baldwin Pdf

“A historical masterpiece! Just when we thought we knew everything about the politics and policies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Peter Baldwin surprises us with innovative insights about the sharp differences in policy among countries as well as complex tradeoffs between civil liberties and public goods. This is a refreshing and readable book in which AIDS is used as a lens to understand the public health enterprise ranging from leprosy and syphilis to tuberculosis and SARS. Baldwin offers a deeply historical and comparative understanding of HIV in the industrialized world.”—Lawrence O. Gostin, author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint "Although a vast literature has emerged to chronicle and reflect on the history of the AIDS epidemic since it was first reported almost a quarter of a century ago, there is nothing like Peter Baldwin's probing and synthetic analysis of AIDS in the industrialized world. Building on his masterful Contagion and the State in Europe 1830-1930, Baldwin has provided a complex historical tapestry of how an epidemic threat has challenged and exposed democracies that thought infectious threats a thing of the past."—Ronald Bayer author of Private Acts, Social Cosequences:Aids and the Politics Of Public Health and coauthor with Gerald Oppenheimer of AIDS Doctors:Voices from the Epidemic

Author : Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015074279889

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Democratisation in the Age of AIDS by Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

This publication presents the results of the three principal, and complimentary, research projects: the findings of the pilot project in Zambia in 2003; the key findings of the South African study (2005); and the preliminary findings of the multi-country study of six African countries - Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Senegal. The study emphasises that HIV/AIDS is - beyond a health crisis - a pandemic that encompasses all spheres of life, with devastating implications for political legitimacy, stability and development in the new democracies in Africa today.

Author : Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000111579524

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AIDS and Electoral Democracy by Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

Author : Henry Kiragu Wambuii
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015066731558

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The Politics of HIV/AIDS and Implications for Democracy in Kenya by Henry Kiragu Wambuii Pdf

Taking the responses against HIV/AIDS as a political arena for the interaction between the state and civil society in Kenya, this book explores the relationship between the resulting mobilization against HIV/AIDS and the ongoing process of democratic consolidation in Kenya. Evidence from the country's mobilization against HIV/AIDS in the early part of the 21st century reveals an explicit positive impact on the build-up of democracy in that country.

Author : Michael P. Brown
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1572302224

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Replacing Citizenship by Michael P. Brown Pdf

This book uses an ethnographic study of one gay community's responses to AIDS to illustrate a radical democratic understanding of citizenship in contemporary society. Analyzing specific forms of AIDS organizing and activism in Vancouver, British Columbia from ACT UP to visiting buddy programs Brown explores the alternative spaces of political action that have formed in locations where state, civil society, and family overlap. Instead of the traditional view of citizenship as a formal, unchanging relationship between individual and state, he proposes that citizenship is more productively discerned in everyday acts and in the actual places where we live our lives. An important contribution to queer theory and theories of radical democracy, the book brings abstract concepts down to earth with its nuanced portrait of the survival strategies of a community under siege. Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Awards

Author : Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015073886494

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The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa by Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process. The latest publication to come out of an extensive study by Idasa and its research partners, this book reveals that the fledgling multi-party democracies in parts of the continent are being undermined by sickness, incapacity and premature deaths among elected leaders as well as within the electorate. The book suggests innovative and holistic responses to address these problems. A culmination of three years of exploratory studies by African researchers working under the auspices of Idasa, it demonstrates how AIDS is interwoven with the continent's ambitions for deepening democracy. With chapters on Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Senegal and Zambia, this study investigates: the attrition among elected political leaders and the costs of replacing them; the loss of elected representatives, its effect on constituencies, and the power dynamics in parliamentary structures and in democratic governance; the failure to maintain voter registers and how it affects the credibility of electoral outcomes; the effect of stigma and discrimination on political participation.

Author : Nana K. Poku
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351884006

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The Political Economy of AIDS in Africa by Nana K. Poku Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa is a region devastated by HIV/AIDS. The extent of the epidemic is only now becoming clear, as increasing numbers of people with HIV are becoming ill. In the absence of massively expanded prevention, treatment and care efforts, the AIDS death toll on the continent is set to escalate rapidly. Despite progress being achieved in localized settings, the alarming statistics reflect the continuing failure of advanced countries to mount a response that matches the scale and severity of the African HIV/AIDS crisis. Over and above the colossal personal suffering, the dire social and economic consequences for fragile nation-states are already being felt, not only in health but in education, industry, agriculture, transport, human resources and economies in general. Countries already crippled by drought, poverty, debt, forced migration and civil war must now contend with massive deterioration in child survival rates and life expectancy, the erosion of the economic family base, massive and insupportable demands on health and public services, chronic labour shortages and volatile national security. Through a critical and detailed exploration of specific case studies, this invaluable volume brings together an unparalleled array of international contributors to redefine the political and economic contours of this calamitous epidemic. It examines the impact of the shortfalls in the 'Global Fund' allocation, the slow pace of administrative processing of aid and the weaknesses of institutional responses to the crisis from African countries and their partners in the global health community. It is essential reading for all concerned with public health, epidemiology, HIV/AIDS research, globalization, development, Africa and indeed our shared future. Features include: ” Unique assessments of HIV/AIDS and its impact on democracy and governance in African states ” Wide-ranging regional and country studies by the foremost thinkers in their fields ” Multi-disciplinary contributions from areas including: Politics, Sociology, Public Health and Development Studies ” Compelling and convincing evidence, thematic in approach ” Innovative and culturally specific insights for long-term planning, care and support

Author : Kirp,David L. Kirp,Ronald Bayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 0773509569

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AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies by Kirp,David L. Kirp,Ronald Bayer Pdf

Author : Mary Crewe,Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082332086

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The Quest for Democracy by Mary Crewe,Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Pdf

Author : Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UOM:39015076193997

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The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa by Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process. It reveals that the fledgling multi-party democracies in parts of the continent are being undermined by sickness, incapacity and premature deaths among elected leaders as well as within the electorate. It suggests innovative and holistic responses to address these problems. A culmination of three years of exploratory studies by African researchers working under the auspices of Idasa, it demonstrates how AIDS is interwoven with the continent's ambitions for deepening democracy.

Author : Per Strand,Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015063666864

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HIV/AIDS and Democratic Governance in South Africa by Per Strand,Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

Part of a continent-wide study being carried out by the Governance and AIDS Programme of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), this book brings together the most recent and substantive empirical evidence pertaining to the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the democratic process and political dynamics in South Africa.

Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848130548

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AIDS and Power by Alex de Waal Pdf

One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social fabric is not being ripped apart by bands of unsocialized orphan children. 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. Partly because of pervasive denial, AIDS is not a political priority for electorates, and therefore not for democratic leaders either. AIDS activists have not directly challenged the political order, instead using international networks to promote a rights-based approach to tackling the epidemic. African political systems have proven resilient in the face of AIDS's stresses, and rulers have learned to co-opt international AIDS efforts to their own political ends. In contrast with these successes, African governments and international agencies have a sorry record of tackling the epidemic itself. AIDS and Power concludes without political incentives for HIV prevention, this failure will persist.

Author : M. Bexell,U. Mörth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230283237

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Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance by M. Bexell,U. Mörth Pdf

There has been rapid proliferation of public–private partnerships in areas of human rights, environmental protection and development in global governance. This book demonstrates how different forms of partnership legitimacy and accountability interact, and pinpoints trade-offs between democratic values in partnership operations.

Author : Steven L. Robins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847012029

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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa by Steven L. Robins Pdf

Critics of liberalism in Europe and North America argue that a stress on 'rights talk' and identity politics has led to fragmentation, individualisation and depoliticisation. But are these developments really signs of 'the end of politics'? In the post-colonial, post-apartheid, neo-liberal new South Africa poor and marginalised citizens continue to struggle for land, housing and health care. They must respond to uncertainty and radical contingencies on a daily basis. This requires multiple strategies, an engaged, practised citizenship, one that links the daily struggle to well organised mobilisation around claiming rights. Robins argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond the sanitised prescriptions of 'good governance' so often touted by development agencies. Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where new negotiations around citizenship emerge. Steven L. Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch and editor of Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey).

Author : David Beetham,C. Kevin Boyle
Publisher : United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015075673395

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Introducing Democracy by David Beetham,C. Kevin Boyle Pdf

What is democracy? What is the relation between democracy and individual rights? Is majority rule always democratic? How can democracy be maintained and improved? This book tackles these and other questions about democracy, covering six broad areas: - basic concepts and principles, - free and fair elections, - open and accountable government, - individual rights and their defence, - democratic or civil society, - the future of democracy. This revised edition also takes into account new challenges facing our societies, from international terrorism to the HIV and AIDS pandemic. Its clear exposition of democratic theory and practice will be of value to students, activists, civil servants and interested citizens across the world.