Research Catalog

Title

The political cost of AIDS in Africa : an overview / by Kondwani Chirambo.

Author

Chirambo, Kondwani.

Publication

Pretoria [South Africa] : IDASA, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Institute for Democracy in South Africa.

Description

74 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process. It 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. It suggests innovative and holistic responses to address these problems. A culmination of three years of exploratory studies by African researchers working under the auspices of Idasa, it demonstrates how AIDS is interwoven with the continent's ambitions for deepening democracy.

Subject

• Since 1960
• AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Democracy > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Elections > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Political participation > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Voting > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects
• Democracy
• Elections
• Political participation
• Politics and government
• Voting
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government > 1960-
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Note

• The culmination of three years of exploratory research, this study shows how AIDS is interwoven with the continent's ambitions for deepening democracy. 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-74).

ISBN

• 9781920118662
• 1920118667

OCLC

• ocn227201693
• 227201693
• SCSB-14660333

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library