Hiv/Aids And The South African State: Sovereignty And The Responsibility To Respond (Routledge Global Health Series)

This book does not seek to absolve the South African state of its responsibility to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Moreover, it argues that although the state, the government, before, during, and after the transition to democracy, was aware of and acknowledged the threat - political, economic and social - posed by the epidemic, it nonetheless chose not to make the epidemic a priority policy issue. As a result, it argues that the South African HIV/AIDS case illustrates the tension inherent between a state's ultimate sovereign responsibility to respond and its tactical dependence on external contributors to meet the demands of all of its constituents.

• • Author: Dr Annamarie Bindenagel Sehovic
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Apr 09, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 256 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472423372
• • ISBN-13: 9781472423375