HIV/AIDS and the South African State: Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Respond

by Annamarie Bindenagel Sehovi?

Overview

For three decades post-apartheid, the HIV/AIDS epidemic from first acknowledgement to its management as a chronic disease, demanded unparalleled attention. This was nowhere more evident than in South Africa. This book explores how the state responded to its responsibilities to defend and protect (human) security. Linking this to the role of the state as sovereign protector and provider of security, it applies the findings to the broader re-interpretation of sovereign responsibility in the 21st Century. This book does not seek to absolve the South African state of its responsibility to respond. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138279315
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/17/2016
Series:	Routledge Global Health Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović is a political scientist and public (health) policy analyst with many years of experience in and focused on sub-Saharan Africa and global health and human security. Dr. Šehović is currently health analyst at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), and affiliated with the Willy-Brandt School of Public Policy and the University of Erfurt, Germany, as well as with the health and human security component of the GR: EEN EU FP7 Funded Project at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: The South African State and the Responsibility to Respond; Chapter 2 Situational Analysis of HIV/AIDS in South Africa; Chapter 3 Social, Economic, and Political Consequences of HIV/AIDS in South Africa; Chapter 4 The (Inter)national Framework of South Africa’s Policy-Making; Chapter 5 Policy Polemics I: Apartheid’s Demise to HIV/AIDS’ Rise; Chapter 6 Policy Polemics II: Rising to the Challenge of HIV/AIDS; Chapter 7 Comparative Applications of the GAP Hypothesis; Chapter 8 Conclusion and Recommendations;