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HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Politics, Aid and Globalization

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  • © 2011

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  1. Adrian Flint
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 1-18

  3. Sex and Disease: A Historical Perspective

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 19-35

  4. The Origins of HIV/AIDS

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 36-52

  5. Gender, Violence and the Spread of HIV/AIDS

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 53-68

  6. Policymaking, Dissidents and Denialists

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 69-86

  7. Traditional Medicine and the Politics of the ‘Witchcraft Paradigm’

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 87-107

  8. The International Response: Multilateral and Unilateral Approaches

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 108-127

  9. Morality, Behavioural Change and the Search for a ‘Social Vaccine’

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 128-144

  10. Governance, the International Trading System and Access to Antiretrovirals

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 145-168

  11. Conclusion

    • Adrian Flint
    Pages 169-175

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 176-211
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This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes of the pandemic and its continuing proliferation and examines the local and global socio-political forces that have contributed to the spread and impact of the disease.

About the author

ADRIAN FLINT Lecturer in Development Poltics at the University of Bristol, UK. Originally from South Africa, he has also taught at the University of Dundee, UK, and the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Trade, Poverty and the Environment: The EU, Cotonou and the African-Caribbean-Pacific Bloc.

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