Across the developing world, HIV/AIDS is slowly killing adults in their most productive years, hollowing out state structures, deepening poverty and raising profound questions that touch on the organization of all aspects of social, economic and political life. With the epidemic showing scant signs of slowing down, this innovative volume assesses how HIV/AIDS affects governance and, conversely, how governance affects the course of the epidemic.
In particular, the volume:
·employs a compelling analytical and polemic framework for mapping the multiple dynamic mechanisms of governance and HIV/AIDS;
·brings together contributions from renowned international scholars from a variety of disciplines;
·draws on comprehensive and detailed perspectives of the roles of actors, institutions and structures;
·provides an incisive study of a global plague which threatens existing social, economic and human interrelations.
Nana K. Poku, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Alan Whiteside, Director of the Health and Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa and Ms Bjorg Sandkjaer, Associate Demographer at the African Centre for Gender and Social Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
His Excellency Kenneth Kaunda, Nana K. Poku, Alan Whiteside, Bjorg Sandkjaer, Tony Barnett, Ajay Mahal, Kondwani Chirambo, Colin McInnes, Dennis Altman, Ann Swidler, Bill Rau, Yves Beigbeder, Per Strand, Franklyn Lisk, Desmond Cohen.