AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet (African Arguments) - Hardcover

Alex De Waal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842777068 ISBN 13: 9781842777060

Publisher: Zed Books, 2006

Synopsis

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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Review:

'In this book, Alex de Waal does what few have done before him: he moves beyond the assumed polemic, separates ideologically infused doom-saying from the available empirical evidence and bases his conclusions on what we actually know about the impact of AIDS.' Pieter Fourie, University of Johannesburg, in Politikon

About the Author:

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. His latest previously published book, with Julie Flint, is Darfur (Zed Books, 2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1842777068
• ISBN 13: 9781842777060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160