Limits of neoliberalism: HIV, COVID-19, and the importance of healthcare systems in Malawi

Zhou, Amy

doi:10.1080/17441692.2021.1940237

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“…The Chilean government, meanwhile, created 16 emergency regions that were all headed by high-ranking military officers (Passos and Acácio, 2021). This militarisation strategy has emerged after many years of neoliberal defunding of social services and health care systems, thereby showing how Global South states are likely to face crises of multiple fronts as facilitated by the lack of systemic and long-term preparedness for a pandemic (De la Cruz Bekema, 2021; Jones and Hameiri, 2021; Zhou, 2021).…”

Section: The Covid-19 Pandemic Crisismentioning

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Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Regilme

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The COVID-19 global pandemic is understood to be a multidimensional crisis, and yet undertheorised is how it reinforced the politics of dehumanisation. This article proposes an original framework that explains how dehumanisation undermines the human dignity of individuals with minoritised socio-economic identities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The framework identifies four interrelated mechanisms of crisis-driven dehumanisation: threat construction, expanded state coercion, reinforcement of hierarchies, and normalisation of deaths. The article argues that an understanding of these mechanisms is crucial for capturing the complexity of human rights deterioration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article uses the plausibility probe method to demonstrate macro-processes of dehumanisation, with illustrative empirical examples from diverse societies during COVID-19. It proposes a framework for understanding these dehumanisation processes that can apply to other transnational crises.

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Section: The Covid-19 Pandemic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Regilme

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…However, far from the recommendation of an adaptive and centralized pandemic governance led by the WHO, most countries are observed to secure their own ‘national interest’ over the call for global solidarity to end the pandemic ( Gostin et al, 2020 ). In what has been described as a fractured global health ecosystem, middle to low income countries suffer the most, as their leaders are embattled to sustain cities and its various communities in light of highly fragile health systems and infrastructures, neoliberal policies to health care, and existing social inequities such as race, gender, or social class ( Bambra et al, 2020 ; Roder-DeWan, 2020 ; Williams et al, 2021 ; Zhou, 2021 ).…”

Section: Politics Of Pandemic Cities and Moral Urbanismsmentioning

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Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government's disciplinary quarantine response to COVID-19

Canoy

Robles

Roxas

2022

Social Science & Medicine

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The purpose of this article is to advance the concept of bodies-in-waiting as an everyday infrastructure to explain the shifting nature of ‘pandemic cities’ in response to the changing dynamics of infection control in urban spaces. While previous literatures have been ‘sanitized’ to emphasize the importance of managing optimal physiological health and safety, we would like to argue that keener attention is needed to rethink the constitutive role of bodies in co-producing a city's sociopolitical ecologies at this time of crisis. The main body is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the political dimensions of pandemic response by various governments with an emphasis to experiences of middle to low income countries. Our intention is to show how these studies bring into light the role of local politics of pandemic response within countries, and that actual governance mechanisms in cities are shaped and contested by shifting power blocs and emergent affinities. The second section forwards an embodied urban political approach that conceptualizes bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure. In this view, bodies-in-waiting is produced and reproduced by complex social-material flows and transformation rooted in variegated matrices of power through which urban spaces are (re)assembled. The last section demonstrates a sample case that shows how bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure are understood using Twitter-sourced data associated with the Philippine government's disciplinary quarantine measures which started March 12, 2020 in the NCR. At its core, bodies-in-waiting as infrastructures populate a politically affirmative urban imaginary of bodies living on despite the existence of an accelerated and mutating virus in slower moving cities.

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“…Many mental health professionals have turned to telehealth in order to continue treating their patients and meet the growing demand for care in this area. Considering the potential benefits of telehealth in improving patient access to treatment and increasing regular appointment attendance, more healthcare providers may decide to maintain their telehealth service offerings in the future [54][55][56].…”

Section: Implications Of Covid-19 For Hiv Treatment In the Short-and ...mentioning

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A Review of the Efforts Made by Several African Countries to Reach UNAIDS Targets and the Effects of the Covid-19 on People Living with HIV

Willie¹

2022

JQHE

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Even though COVID-19 has spread faster than any other health problem in the last 100 years, it is not the first pandemic that the modern world has had to deal with. As countries try to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is getting worse and worse, they are already using what they have learnt and invested in while dealing with HIV by putting systems to use, and figuring out what dynamic changes are needed to build a new way forward towards health systems that are optimally effective, accountable, inclusive, fair, and well-resourced, with services that are accessible, integrated, tailored, and people-centred. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lot of terrible effects on people, communities, and societies all over the world. People with long-term health problems may be more likely to get COVID-19 or have complications from it. People who get the virus can get sick or die, and the physical distance needed to flatten the curve of new cases is hurting the economy. This hurts the economy in ways that affect mental health and other health problems, which particularly hurts marginalised communities. COVID-19 is affecting people with HIV (PWH) in unique ways, and it will continue to influence HIV research and treatment after the COVID-19 crisis is over. This is because HIV affects marginalised communities more than other groups.

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Limits of neoliberalism: HIV, COVID-19, and the importance of healthcare systems in Malawi

Cited by 14 publications

References 89 publications

Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity

Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government's disciplinary quarantine response to COVID-19

A Review of the Efforts Made by Several African Countries to Reach UNAIDS Targets and the Effects of the Covid-19 on People Living with HIV

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