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12 - Of Savages and Mass Killing: HIV/AIDS, Africa and the Crisis of Global Health Governance

from Part IV - HIV/AIDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

By
Obijiofor Aginam
Edited by
Toyin Falola  and
Matthew M. Heaton
With contributions by
Obi Aginam ,
Yacouba Banhoro ,
Richard Beilock ,
Charity Chenga ,
Mandi Chikombero ,
Kaley Creswell ,
Freek Cronj� ,
Frank D.F. Dadzie ,
Gabriel B. Fosu  and
Stephen Obeng-Manu Gyimah
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Obijiofor Aginam
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Toyin Falola
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
Matthew M. Heaton
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
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Summary

Our response to AIDS has so far been a failure. There has been scientific progress, but with few dividends for people living with poverty as well as HIV. In most of sub-Saharan Africa, they have access to neither prevention nor treatment. Three million deaths this year, and not yet counted millions of new infections, bespeak massive failure.

—Paul Farmer, “AIDS as a Global Emergency”

For countries in southern Africa … the AIDS epidemic is a real weapon of mass destruction.

—Kofi Annan, year-end press conference, New York City, December 19, 2003

It's mass murder by complacency. … This pandemic cannot be allowed to continue, and those who watch it unfold with a kind of pathological equanimity must be held to account. There may yet come a day when we have peacetime tribunals to deal with this particular version of crimes against humanity.

—Stephen Lewis, Text of UN Briefing on HIV/AIDS in Africa, January 9, 2003

The world is just one village. Our tolerance of disease in any place in the world is at our own peril.

—Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg, Quoted in Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Emerging Infectious Diseases in a World out of Balance
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HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being , pp. 271 - 286
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2007

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