HIV/AIDS in Africa is heavily politicized and governments, policy makers and NGOs face a series of political dilemmas where responses to the problem of HIV/AIDS in Africa is concerned. This book focuses on the political issues that are associated with the pandemic and the political contexts in which
Neoliberalism and AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Globalization’s Pandemic
✍ Scribed by Colleen O’Manique (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 216
- Series
- International Political Economy Series
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Globalization’s Pandemic....Pages 1-15
AIDS Knowledges and Africa’s Pandemic....Pages 16-43
Africa in the Global Institutional Response....Pages 44-77
The Other ‘War on Drugs’....Pages 78-98
Why Africa? Uganda’s Epidemic in Historical Perspective....Pages 99-134
The Uganda ‘Success Story’....Pages 135-168
Conclusion....Pages 169-177
Back Matter....Pages 178-207
✦ Subjects
Political Economy; International Relations; African Politics; Sociology, general; Political Theory; Globalization
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