Global Best Practice, Report 7. Contents: Botswana and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Diana Games; A Genuine Concern for Public Health - The Government of Senegal's Response to the Threat of AIDS, Mercedes Sayagues; Uganda - Controlling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Diana Games. 112pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

This edited volume analyzes African state responses to the AIDS epidemic. Institutionally weak, limited in resources and lacking power in the international system, the African state has been characterized as inefficient, corrupt and illegitimate. Questions how aspects of the African state have affected policy responses to AIDS. It highlights how African states must initiate, develop and/or implement the long-term policy solutions necessary to combat AIDS. It employs empirical studies from the international and national arena to illustrate why some African states have been able (and willing) to address AIDS while others have not. BNS, 256pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

Too often, approaches to dealing with the problems posed by the spread of HIV have been one dimensional, with the assumption that what works in one place will work in another. Douglas Feldman has collected a group of essays representing a wide range of original ideas, methodologies, and suggestions that make a significant contribution to the field of AIDS research, both in Africa and beyond. These original, previously unpublished essays also address the need for a greater anthropological perspective in the increasingly medicalised and politicised study of HIV and AIDS. As a whole, they pave the way for a deeper cultural understanding necessary to effectively reverse the catastrophic growth of HIV/AIDS on the continent. 336pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PRESS.

The political impact of HIV/AIDS varies greatly and is difficult to map. States depend on how governments choose to manage the political implications of HIV and AIDS, both those stemming from the erosions of its own capacity as well as those that originate from their changing relationship on a national and international level. 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 volume assesses how HIV/AIDS affects governance and, conversely, how governance affects the course of the epidemic. Index, 267pp, UK. ASHGATE.

The proceedings of the first regional Governance and AIDS Forum convened by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) in April 2003. The main issue dealt with is the framing of the pandemic within the realm of governance, in order for governments to effectively deal with HIV/AIDS, by creating an environment for collaborative efforts with non state actors. 186pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, 1919798528

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? 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, and if adequately supported, can find ways of sustaining development and democracy in the midst of HIV/AIDS. Index, 147pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

A collection of essays addressing the issues from a broad multidisciplinary approach. Essays include HIV/AIDS in the context of South Africa's epidemic, South Africa divided against AIDS and Can visual arts make a difference? Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Index, notes, refs, xviii, 195pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

The author approaches the HIV/AIDS pandemic through the prism of moral philosophy. He relates both practical aspects of philosophy, sexuality and poverty, as well as ethical discussions of egoism, hedonism, utilitarianism and moral obligation. Bib, notes, 156pp, KENYA. ZAPF CHANCERY.

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In the West, AIDS among Africans is associated with media images of dying people which belie hidden narratives of poverty, promiscuity, failed leadership, impending Armageddon, and the greed of Western drug companies accused of putting profits before African lives. But how do Africans themselves see AIDS and what do they believe causes the disease? How do those affected by the undeniable epidemic really live with it and how has the disease affected Africans' sense of who they are? Based on personal observations, interviews, the reading of African press, books and AIDS narratives in African fiction, as well as in academic papers, this book charts the development of the African AIDS discourse and attempts to see how Africans view health and diseases in general. Index, 179pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY PUBLISHERS LTD. 0905068077

Explores the history of and current collision between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascen-dancy of neoliberal economic ideas. Argues that not only how IMF policies of restrictive spending have exacerbated public health problems in developing countries, in particular the HIV/AIDS crisis, but also how such issues cannot be resolved under these economic policies. It also suggests how mounting global frustration about this inability to adequately address HIV/AIDS will ultimately lead to challenges to the dominant neoliberal ideas, as other more effective economic ideas for increasing public spending are sought. 288pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Presents the results of the three principal, and complimentary, research projects: the findings of the pilot project in Zambia in 2003; the key findings of the South African study (2005); and the preliminary findings of the multi-country study of six African countries Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Senegal. The study emphasises that HIV/AIDS is beyond a health crisis a pandemic that encompasses all spheres of life, with devastating implications for political legitimacy, stability and development in the new democracies in Africa today. 50pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

The devastating AIDS pandemic in Africa poses daunting medical, social, and economic challenges, placing local, regional, national, and international communities at a moral cross-roads. This book, the first to systematically examine the ethical implications of the AIDS pandemic for Africa, examines such pressing questions as: How do we deal with the uncertain-ties surrounding AIDS statistics? Is it really too costly to provide people highly active antiretrovi-ral therapies in Africa? Is the political leadership in South Africa doing what is right and prudent to meet the challenge of AIDS? 232pp, SOUTH AFRICA. NEW AFRICA EDUCATION PUBLISHING.

A collection of essays about the politics of global health, especially the impact of HIV/AIDS on public health systems. Chapters include 'Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa', 'AIDS and National Security', and 'HIV/AIDS and the Older Woman in Zambia'. BNS, 216pp, UK. PALGRAVE, 140392063X

Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved. The text highlights HIV/AIDS as an exceptional global epidemic in terms of the severity of its impact as a humanitarian tragedy of unprecedented proportion, its multi-dimensional characteristics, and its continuous evolution over more than two decades. 160pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Drawing on a broad range of methodologies and disciplines, the authors examine the social and economic forces that have made AIDS the leading infectious cause of death in young adults globally. The main focus of the essays is on sub Saharan Africa where transmission is linked to local economies and politics and regional concepts of gender, religion and power. Index, 398pp, UK. BLACKWELL.

A study expanding the framework for understanding the HIV/AIDS pandemic as not only a humanitarian catastrophe, but also as a threat to state and international security. Selected contents: HIV/AIDS, the Military and the Changing Landscape of Africa's Security - S. Elbe & R.L. Ostergard; HIV/AIDS in the Context of Poverty: Africa's Deadly Predicament - N.K. Poku & B. Sandkjaer; HIV/AIDS and Democratic Legitimacy and Stability in Africa - J. Youde; The Decay of State Capacity: HIV/AIDS in South Africa's National Security - A.T. Price-Smith, M. Tubin, R.L Ostergard. Index, 288pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

First in a series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa with the overall objective of providing a resource base on issues of rural development in a broad sense in the times of HIV/AIDS. This book discusses the impact of the epidemic as it has emerged over the last decades at different levels of the agricultural sector, with a particular focus on the centrality of gender in the impact of HIV/AIDS impact. Also discusses of HIV/AIDS in relation to other shocks that befall rural livelihoods. Includes an annotated bibliography. 103pp, NETHERLANDS. WAGENINGEN ACADEMIC PRESS.

Substantial financial and human resources from donors, governments, civil society organisations and the private sector have been committed to fighting HIV/AIDS since it was first discovered in Africa. As more resources are allocated, this collection argues, there is a growing need for countries to properly account for these funds. These essays measure the financial response to the pandemic in five selected countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi Zambia and Zanzibar. 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

Sub-Saharan Africa has been called the 'ground zero' for HIV/AIDS. Without question, it has borne the brunt of the pandemic. However, simply explaining HIV/AIDS as the latest in a long list of disasters to befall sub-Saharan Africa offers little by way of a solution to what is arguably its most pressing crisis. Just as a famine is rarely an 'act of God', the extent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic was by no means predetermined. Here, its rapid spread and sheer severity is demystified. In some respects at least, the millions of ongoing HIV infections and AIDS deaths can be read as a gross failure of politics and governance around the globe. 232pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and traditional healers, among others - in communities in and around South Africa. Using a social theory lens, the book focuses on not only the cultural and contextual practices, but also the methodological and epistemological orientations around HIV/AIDS in education that shape community and individual interpretations of this disease. 144pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

Of the 16 million children to have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide, almost 15 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on these children and those who are made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Of the millions affected, many live in deep poverty, experience little schooling, have unmet health and psychological issues and bear the burden of stigma. Their plight is often ignored and, as a result, they lead lives of isolation and exclusion that threaten their futures. The book gives voice to HIV/AIDS orphans, allowing them to tell their stories and explain the challenges they face. Susanna Grannis, founder of CHABHA (Children Affected by HIV/AIDS), shows through first-hand experience and research how young community leaders can, with help, effectively promote children's well-being and independ-ence. Readers learn of the complexities and possibilities involved in positive development through the analysis of data on children from five different countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 200pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

Examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions. The geographical focus is Sub-Saharan Africa since the region has been at the forefront of these interventions. There is a need to understand the relationship between the international political environment and the impact of resulting policies on HIV/AIDS in the context of people's lives and this study points out a certain disjuncture between this governance structures and the way people experience the disease in their everyday lives. Index, bib, notes, 193pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment, and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions vividly describe the dilemmas that families, communities, and health professionals face as they attempt to make sense of the AIDS crisis and develop socially and morally acceptable strategies in dealing with the death, suffering and consequent disruption of social and reproductive relationships. 353pp, UK. BERGHAHN BOOKS.

A study addressing the economic issues at the heart of HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa looking at the macroeconomic impact of the disease and the relationship between AIDS and poverty. Index, refs, notes, charts, 224pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521548640

A critical examination of the evolution of the policy response to HIV/AIDS in sub Saharan Africa through a feminist political economy lens. The author focuses on the relationship between neo liberalism, the spread of HIV/AIDS and the hegemonic policy response. Central to the analysis is a historical case study of Uganda. BNS, 224pp, UK. PALGRAVE/MACMILLAN, 1403920893

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is increasingly being acknowledged as a growing governance chal-lenge. As HIV/AIDS hinders economic and social growth by draining poor nations of their children, workers and leaders, it puts pressure on political systems and democratic governance. This comparative study, covering Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa, considers what these parliaments are doing about HIV/AIDS. 30pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

HIV/AIDS has a negative impact on economic activity. Based on interviews, this study assesses the impact of HIV/AIDS on the micro and small enterprise sector by assessing the perceptions of employers and employees. The service industry was selected for the study because it employs a majority of women, who are generally perceived to be at a lower risk of exposure than men. Refs, table, 44pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA, 1904855318

Provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process. The latest publication to come out of an extensive study by IDASA and its research partners, this book reveals that the fledgling multi-party democracies in parts of the continent are being undermined by sickness, incapacity and premature deaths among elected leaders as well as within the electorate. With chapters on Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Senegal and Zambia, this study investigates: the attrition among elected political leaders and the costs of replacing them; the loss of elected representatives, its effect on constituencies, and the power dynamics in parliamentary structures and in democratic governance; the failure to maintain voter registers and how it affects the credibility of electoral outcomes; and the effect of stigma and discrimination on political participation. Maps, tables, charts, 390pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

This overview provides an introduction to a study on The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa conducted by the South African democracy institute IDASA, and its research partners in different countries in Africa. It provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process and demonstrates that the fledgling multi-party democracies in parts of the continent are being undermined by sickness, incapacity and premature deaths among elected leaders as well as within the electorate. The culmination of three years of exploratory research, the study shows how AIDS is interwoven with the continents ambitions for deepening democracy. It is also available is an expanded companion volume, which provides the details of the study’s research findings in separate chapters on Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Senegal and Zambia. 74pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

Through detailed analysis of case studies, the contributors redefine the political and economic contours of the HIV/AIDS academic. Topics examined include the impact of the shortfalls in the Global Fund allocation, the slow pace of administration and the weaknesses of institutional responses to the crisis from African countries and their partners in the global health community. Index, refs, tables, xxii, 235pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 0754638987

Why do some African states commit more effectively than others to the fight against AIDS? How do power inequalities and decision-making institutions shape Africa’s ability to combat the disease? Within the context of debates about the nature of the African state, its relations with civil society, and its reliance on external donors, this study presents a systematic study of African state efforts to battle the AIDS epidemic. Tackles the topics of power, representation, accountability, and leadership. Also examines the impact of formal and informal institutions, transitions to democratic governance, and pressures from the international community. Index, bib, 226pp, USA. LYNNE RIENNER.

Tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Cote-d'Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and 2000, when the global health community acknowledged a right to treatment, making the drugs more available. He describes how in the intervening years, when anti-retrovirals were scarce in Africa, triage decisions were made determining who would receive lifesaving treatment. He explains too how those decisions altered social relations in West Africa. 256pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Argues that the AIDS pandemic is so pervasive in Africa that drastic measures are needed; and that those measures must primarily focus on prevention through political intervention. 284pp, GHANA. AFRAM.

Since the 1980s HIV/AIDS has occupied a singular position because of the rapidly emergent threat and devastation the disease has caused, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. New infections continue to create a formidable challenge to households, communities, and health systems: last year alone, 2.7 million new infections occurred globally. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the suffering, with around two-thirds of infected individuals worldwide found there, and a disproportionate number of deaths and new infections. For years there have been widespread and concerted efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, identify a cure, and understand and mitigate the deleterious social and economic ramifica-tions of the disease. Despite these efforts, and some apparent successes, there is still a long way to go in terms of altering behaviours in order to realize the objective of dramatic reductions in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The authors in this volume examine the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, which persists despite major strides in averting deaths due to antiretroviral therapy. 360pp, JAPAN. UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY PRESS.

This Adelphi Paper argues that the AIDS pandemic is not only a health and development issue, but also a strategic one. Drawing on examples from Africa and Asia, it explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on the armed forces and state stability of the worst affected countries. The paper concludes by outlining how the security sector can make an important contribution to wider international efforts to reduce the spread of the illness. Notes, 78pp, UK. OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 0198529120

Explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks - rather than changes in individual behaviour - were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. 304pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P.

Unfolds a universe of brothels and bureaucracies, of bickering junkies and squabbling charities, of men who sell sex and men who would rather prohibit it. Illustrating solid science with ribald tales from the frontlines of sex and drugs, this book argues that we could shut down HIV everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa. We could do it with a few, simple steps. We could do it with less money than we already have. But we won't. This book shows how politics, ideology and money - lots of money, ten billion dollars a year - have bulldozed through scientific evidence and common sense. 400pp, UK. GRANTA.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is mysterious in origin, diabolically efficient in its transmission, and devastating in its consequences. Cultural discourses attempting to explain where it comes from, who gets it, and who dies have proliferated in local and national cultures around the world, and these discourses frequently come into conflict with scientific explanations. This is the first in-depth study investigating and comparing beliefs about witchcraft and conspiracies surrounding HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. Index, bib, b/w illus, 247pp, USA. LEFT ON THE SHELF.

The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), two institutions with a longstanding interest in the study of youth and social transformations in Africa. Under the collaboration, 12 young African researchers were able to benefit from fellowships, workshops and the expertise of resource persons. The studies contribute empirical insights from five different countries (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Cameroon) to ongoing debates on how youth and social processes in Africa shape, and are shaped, by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. 142pp, SENEGAL. OSSREA.