The Political Economy of HIV in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Economy of HIV in Africa
Redaktion: Johnston, Deborah; Rizzo, Matteo; Deane, Kevin

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reasserts an enduring political economy approach to HIV through a critical (re)assessment. It discusses how risk and illness are conceptualised, and other issues concerning the role of the state and the fragmented nature of the response. It was first published as a special issue of Review of African Political Economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351725736
• Artikelnr.: 57413634

Autorenporträt

Deborah Johnston is a Reader in Development Economics at SOAS University of London, UK. She is a development economist whose research looks at the application of economics, political economy and feminist economics to issues of poverty, ill-health and wellbeing. Kevin Deane is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Northampton, UK. His educational background is in development economics, but his research draws on a range of disciplines including political economy, development studies, economics, public health and epidemiology, with an application to the economic and social drivers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Matteo Rizzo is Senior Lecturer in Development Research Methods at the Department of Development Studies, Senior Lecturer in the Economics of Africa at the Department of Economics and a Member of the Centre of African Studies, all at SOAS University of London, UK. He is an editorial board member of the Review of African Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The political economy of HIV 1. Trapped in the prison of the
proximate: structural HIV/AIDS prevention in southern Africa 2. The
political economy of concurrent partners: toward a history of sex-love-gift
connections in the time of AIDS 3. Wealthy and healthy? New evidence on the
relationship between wealth and HIV vulnerability in Tanzania 4. Paying the
price of HIV in Africa: cash transfers and the depoliticisation of HIV risk
5. Exploring the complexity of microfinance and HIV in fishing communities
on the shores of Lake Malawi 6. Revisiting the economics of transactional
sex: evidence from Tanzania Debates 7. The key questions in the AIDS
epidemic in 2015 8. 15 years of 'War on AIDS': what impact has the global
HIV/AIDS response had on the political economy of Africa? 9. Breaking out
of silos - the need for critical paradigm reflection in HIV prevention 10.
Microfinance and HIV prevention