Politics in the hot zone: Aids and national security in Africa

Ostergard, Robert L.

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“…However, for many low-and middle-income countries serious data limitations exist with respect to the full extent of work-related injury and illness (60). sion, the economic strain and the social fragmentation of the disease on countries, and its potential use as a weapon of war via rape (43,94). Second, the rise in NCDs in low-and middle-income countries is partly attributable to global trade and investment policies and practices that are globalizing Western lifestyles, including increased consumption of unhealthy products.…”

Section: Globalization and Death On The Jobmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice

Labonté¹,

Mohindra²,

Schrecker

2011

Annu. Rev. Public Health

153

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In recent decades, public health policy and practice have been increasingly challenged by globalization, even as global financing for health has increased dramatically. This article discusses globalization and its health challenges from a vantage of political science, emphasizing increased global flows (of pathogens, information, trade, finance, and people) as driving, and driven by, global market integration. This integration requires a shift in public health thinking from a singular focus on international health (the higher disease burden in poor countries) to a more nuanced analysis of global health (in which health risks in both poor and rich countries are seen as having inherently global causes and consequences). Several globalization-related pathways to health exist, two key ones of which are described: globalized diseases and economic vulnerabilities. The article concludes with a call for national governments, especially those of wealthier nations, to take greater account of global health and its social determinants in all their foreign policies.

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Section: Globalization and Death On The Jobmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice

Labonté¹,

Mohindra²,

Schrecker

2011

Annu. Rev. Public Health

153

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“…Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been an emphasis on conceptualising HIV in international security terms and this has been extensively debated within the Global Health IR literature (see Rushton and McInnes, 2012;McInnes and Rushton, 2010;Rushton, 2010aRushton, , 2010bElbe, 2003Elbe, , 2005Elbe, , 2006Elbe, , 2009Ostergard, 2002Ostergard, , 2008; Barnett and Prins, 2006;McInnes, 2006;Whiteside, 2006;Garrett, 2005). In January 2000, the UN Security Council took the extraordinary step of highlighting the pandemic as 'a threat to international peace and security'.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender, HIV and Risk

Anderson

2015

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This timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender and politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics.The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women's movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality.

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“…The relationship between conflict, sexual violence and the spread of HIV is a serious concern for international policy makers and, ever since these concerns informed the United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 in 2000, the relationship between conflict and HIV has been considered an international security problem (USIP, 2001;Elbe, 2002Elbe, , 2009Ostergard, 2002;Peterson, 2002;Singer, 2002;Altman, 2003 andHeymann, 2003). However, the relationship identified between conflict and HIV/AIDS has also been questioned by many (Spiegel, 2004).…”

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What Is the Evidence That There Is No Evidence? The Link Between Conflict, Displacement and HIV Infections

Seckinelgin¹

2010

Eur J Dev Res

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The relationship between conflict, sexual violence and the spread of HIV is an important concern for international policy makers. One of the controversial issues is how to assess this relationship for policy purposes, given the unsettled and unpredictable nature of conflict contexts, and also given that HIV/AIDS is still a stigmatized disease. The nature of what constitutes policy-relevant knowledge is furthermore also highly controversial. This article aims to consider the kinds of knowledge that can be evidential for policy making within the context of the debate on conflict and HIV/AIDS. In particular, it focuses on the way particular data and methods are seen as more relevant for evidence-based policy in this context, critically evaluating and considering the influence of the recent high-profile Lancet article 'Prevalence of HIV infection in conflict-affected and displaced people in seven sub-Saharan African countries: a systemic review'.Le lien entre conflit, violence sexuelle et propagation du VIH repre´sente une pre´occupation importante pour l'e´laboration de politiques internationales. Une question controverse´e concerne la manie`re d'e´valuer la nature de ce lien, compte tenu des contextes de conflits souvent non re´solus et impre´visibles, et du fait que le Sida reste une maladie stigmatise´e. La notion de ce qui constitue des connaissances pertinentes a`l'e´laboration des politiques est aussi l'objet de controverses. Cet article a pour but d'apporter des e´le´ments de re´ponses a`ces questions en conside´rant le type de connaissances qui peuvent avoir une valeur probante pour l'e´laboration de politiques concernant la relation entre les conflits et le VIH/Sida. Nous examinons en particulier comment certaines me´thodes et donne´es sont conside´re´es plus pertinentes que d'autres pour l'e´laboration de politiques fonde´es sur des informations factuelles, proposant une e´valuation critique d'un article tre`s influent re´cemment publie´dans la revue me´dicale Lancet, )Prevalence of HIV infection in conflict-affected and displaced people in seven sub-Saharan African countries : A systemic review* ()La Pre´valence du VIH parmi les populations touche´es par les conflits dans sept pays de l 0 Afrique subsaharienne : Une revue syste´matique*).

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Politics in the hot zone: Aids and national security in Africa

Cited by 56 publications

References 17 publications

The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice

The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice

Gender, HIV and Risk

What Is the Evidence That There Is No Evidence? The Link Between Conflict, Displacement and HIV Infections

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