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BL
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1039183
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b793553
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| Main Entry
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De Waal, Alex.
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| Title & Author
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AIDS and power : : why there is no political crisis--yet /\ Alex de Waal.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Zed Books ;Cape Town :: David Philip ;[London] :: in association with the International African Institute and the Royal African Society ;New York :: Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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African arguments
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (147 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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1281215589
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: 1842777068
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: 1842777076
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: 1848130546
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: 9781281215581
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: 9781842777060
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: 9781842777077
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: 9781848130548
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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AIDS (Disease)-- Political aspects-- South Africa.
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AIDS (Disease)-- Political aspects.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- AIDS HIV.
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MEDICAL-- AIDS HIV.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-- epidemiology-- Africa South of the Sahara.
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HIV Infections-- epidemiology-- Africa South of the Sahara.
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Politics-- Africa South of the Sahara.
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South Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.196/979200968
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| LC Classification
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RA643.86.S6D49 2006eb
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2006 K-621
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WC 503.4 HA12D515a 2006
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