I happened upon this center at the University of Pretoria while trolling for papers. They have some articles that may be relevant for those interested in the politics of HIV, the impact on South Africa, human security, etc.
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Calvin College’s Amy Patterson edited this 2005 book The African State and the AIDS Crisis. Here is a link to Ashgate’s website which provides a PDF to the intro. Seems to be some tension in the intro between how much responsibility for weak policy responses to HIV are attributable to outside causes (an unfair intellectual […]
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Ambrosio, Thomas. “The Geopolitics of Demographic Decay: HIV/AIDS and Russia’s Great Power Status” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2005-03-05 “Ambrosio Paper : The Geopolitics of Demographic Decay” Blanchard, Jean-Marc. “Corporate Hegemony in Remission: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the HIV/AIDS crisis” Paper presented at the […]
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This 2003 documentary seeks to reveal both the human costs of AIDS but also the political failings of the international community to come to grips with the problem. I’ve seen promos ads for it and have requested a copy.
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This book is by a former professor of mine Tony Barnett. He is now at the LSE, formerly with the University of East Anglia’s School of Development Studies. His co-author is Alan Whiteside, from South Africa. I think they have a sort of anthropological/sociological view, looking at the consequences of AIDS, less focused on solutions […]
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I posted a number of articles in the Gems section worth taking a look at including: – My excerpt on HIV/AIDS from my dissertation which provides a preliminary look at the relative contributions of four of the major G-7 countries’ contributions to the Global Fund (U.S., Japan, Germany, and the UK). – Peter Singer’s 2004 […]
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The Washington Post has a link to hundreds of stories tracking HIV/AIDS and international responses in Africa over the past four or five years. They have a great and sad six-part series from 2000-2001 called Death Watch. Links are down for it, but I’ll try to post them separately when I can find them…
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This 2002 National Intelligence Council report warned of a wave of new infections from China, Russia, India and other places. Very scary, and a good source of information.
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This is a 2003 RAND study, another effort making the case that AIDS is a security threat, using the idea of human security. The paper has a case on South Africa and also a strong emphasis on U.S. foreign policy.
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by Greg Berhman This Council on Foreign Relations book came out in 2004. Here is part of the blurb from the publisher. My own review forthcoming. All I know is that this guy is about 25, which is extremely annoying! “The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States’s […]
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