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See below for a list of various HEARD publications and books
Books
- HIV/AIDS - a Very Short Introduction Alan Whiteside
- AIDS and Governance (Ashgate Publishing Global Series) Nana K. Poku, Alan Whiteside and Bjorg Sandkjaer.
- The HIV Pandemic: Local and Global Implications (Oxford University Press, Oxford) by Eduard J Beck, Nicholas Mays, Alan W Whiteside, and Jose M Zuniga.
- Poverty, AIDS and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi (Palgrave, Basingstoke) by Anne C. Conroy, Malcolm J Blackie, Alan Whiteside, Justin C. Malewezi and Jeffrey D. Sachs (eds).
- AIDS in the Twenty-First Century NEW Fully revised and updated version by Tony Barnett & Alan Whiteside
- Global Health and Governance edited by Nana Poku and Alan Whiteside
- The Political Economy of AIDS in Africa edited by Nana Poku and Alan Whiteside
- AIDS in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalisation by Tony Barnett & Alan Whiteside
- Impacts and Interventions: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Children of South Africa edited by HEARD researchers, Chris Desmond and Jeff Gow.
- AIDS The Challenge for South Africa by Alan Whiteside & Clem Sunter
Chapters in Books
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AIDS, a Darwinian Event? (Online edition)
Philippe Denis and Charles Becker (eds), The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Historical Perspective. Online edition, October 2006, pp. 57-72 A. de Waal (Harvard University) and A. Whiteside, 2006
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‘Through a glass darkly: data and uncertainty in the AIDS debate'
In: van Niekerk, Anton A. and Kopelman, Loreta M. (eds), Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The Challenges to Our Thinking, 15 - 38; Claremont: David Philip, first published in Developing World Bioethics, 3(1), May 2003.
T. Barnett, G. George, A Van Niekerk and A. Whiteside, 2005 -
'AIDS in Africa: facts, figures and the extent of the problem'
In: van Niekerk, Anton A. and Kopelman, Loreta M. (eds), Ethics and AIDS in Africa: the Challenges to Our Thinking, Claremont: David Philip, p. 1 - 14. A. Whiteside, 2005
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‘The economic impact of AIDS'
In: Karim, Abdool and Karim, Q. Abdool (eds), HIV/AIDS in Africa, Cape Town: Cambridge University Press, p. 367 - 380. A. Whiteside, 2005
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‘The Economic, Social, and Political Drivers of the AIDS Epidemic in Swaziland: a Case Study'.
In: Patterson, A (ed), The African State and the AIDS Crisis, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, p. 97 - 126. A. Whiteside, 2005
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HIV/AIDS: Finding ways to contain the pandemic.
In John Daniel, Roger Southall, and J. Lutchman (eds.) State of the Nation: South Africa 2004-2005. Human Sciences Research Council Press, Cape Town, and Michigan State University Press, East Lansing.
The chapter shows how and why the South Africa government is beginning to confront the challenge of actually containing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It also shows how efforts in and beyond government are still constrained by the lack of leadership displayed by the President and the Minister of Health. Tim Quinlan & Samantha Willan 2004
- Costs of Care and Support, Tim Quinlan and Chris Desmond, 2002
- Heard staff contributed to the following book:
- AIDS, Public Policy and Child Well-being, edited by Giovanni Andrea Cornia (UNICEF), Heard staff, 2002
- Chapter 6, The Current and Future Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic on South Africa's Childrens, Chris Desmond & Jeff Gow, 2002
- Chapter 11, Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Impact, Coping and Mitigation Policy, Alan Whiteside & Tony Barnett, 2002
Journal Articles
- 'AIDS, security and the military in Africa: A sober appraisal', African Affairs, Volume 105, Number 419 Pp. 201-218, Click here to view the article. A De Waal ,T Gebre-Tensae and A Whiteside, 2006
- 'Economic Impact of HIV', Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 19 (2): 197-210. (need to subscribe to view) N Veenstra and A Whiteside, 2005
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'The "Free by 5" Campaign for Universal, Free Antiretroviral
Therapy: user fees pose a significant barrier to achievement of the "3 by 5" strategy.
Public Library of Science (PloS) Medicine, 2, (8), August e227 p. 0101 - 0104
Click here to view the article. S Lee and A Whiteside, 2005Therapy: user fees pose a significant barrier to achievement of the "3 by 5" strategy'
Public Library of Science (PloS) Medicine, 2, (8), August e227 p. 0101 - 0104
Click here to view the article. S Lee and A Whiteside, 2005
General Articles
Article by May Chazan entitled LIFE AND DEATH IN WARWICK JUNCTION on Pages 4-5 in publication "Crossings" - March 2006, Vol 7 No.1
See below for extract from the Editorial by Belinda Dodson, Guest Editor :
The links between gender, mobility, livelihood, household dynamics and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS are highlighted
through the experience of female traders at Durban's Warwick Junction. The very mobility that is essential to
securing these women's individual and household livelihoods increases their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, not just
through infection, but also in terms of their exposure to the broader impacts of the epidemic. The women of
Warwick Junction identified lack of information as one of the main factors making them more vulnerable, echoing
the findings about Johannesburg domestic workers and highlighting the need for HIV/AIDS education initiatives
targeted at specific migrant communities. Click here to view the article. May Chazan
2006
Technical Documents
- Guidelines for Preparation and Execution of Studies of the Social and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS, Alan Whiteside & Tony Barnett, 1999
Books - Further Details
HIV/AIDS - a Very Short Introduction
by Alan Whiteside - Nov 2007
Though first identified in 1981, by 2004 an estimated 40 million people were living with HIV/AIDS and about 20 million had died - numbers which continue to rise as scientists race to find a cure for the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death.
This book explains the science, the international and local politics, the fascinating demographics, and the devastating consequences of the disease, and explores how we have - and must - respond.
Out now from Oxford University Press - Click here to download for more information and an Order Form.
To order, go to http://www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/
For a review of this book, Click here, or click here.
AIDS and Governance
Nana K. Poku, Alan Whiteside and Bjorg Sandkjaer
The political impact of HIV/AIDS varies greatly and is difficult to map. States depend on how governments choose to manage the political implications of HIV and AIDS, both those stemming from the erosions of its own capacity as well as those that originate from their changing relationship on a national and international level.
Across the developing world, HIV/AIDS is slowly killing adults in their most productive years, hollowing out state structures, deepening poverty and raising profound questions that touch on the organisation of all aspects of social, economic and political life. With the epidemic showing scant signs of slowing down, this innovative volume assesses how HIV/AIDS affects governance and, conversely, how governance affects the course of the epidemic.
In particular, the volume:
- employs a compelling analytical and polemic framework for mapping the multiple dynamic mechanisms of governance and HIV/AIDS;
- brings together contributions from renowned international scholars from a variety of disciplines;
- draws on comprehensive and detailed perspectives of the roles of actors, institutions and structures;
- provides an incisive study of a global plague which threatens existing social, economic and human interrelations.
Review
"This book provides extensive evidence and a useful collection of analyses across health, development and social science paradigms on the way the AIDS epidemic is affecting various aspects of governance. It provides a stimulating contribution to debates on the political dimensions of and interplay between the global, national and local responses to AIDS." Dr Rene Loewenson, Director, Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe
About the Editors
Nana K. Poku, John Ferguson Chair of African Studies at the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, Bradford, UK; Alan Whiteside, Director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa and Ms Bjorg Sandkjaer, Associate Demographer at the African Centre for Gender and Social Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Further Information
ISBN: 0 7546 4579 7
Publication Date: 06/2007
Number of Pages: 286 pages
Binding Options: Available in Hardback and Paperback
British Library Reference: 362.1'969792'00967
Library of Congress Reference: 2006039319
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-4579-5
Click here to visit the publisher's website for more information.
AIDS in the Twenty-First Century - Fully revised and updated version
by Alan Whiteside and Tony Barnett
First published in 2002, AIDS in the Twenty-FirstCentury met with widespread praise from researchers and policy makers. This edition is fully revised to take account of the latest facts and developments in the field. All statistics and evidence have been updated and their meanings reconsidered. Latest developments in vaccines, anti-retroviral treatments and microbicides are discussed along with information about the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. A revised and extended bibliography is an important resource for students and researchers, and each chapter contains key readings and topics for essays and discussions. Carefully written to be accessible, this book is theoretically informed, practical and remains the leading text in its field.
Click here for information on the original 2002 published version
Global Health and Governance
edited by Nana Poku and Alan Whiteside
This volume brings together a
collection of essays from researchers engaged in, or concerned with, the politics of global health. It addresses
the power relations which drive global health strategies, frustrate the possibility of effective engagement and
operate to relegate billions of people to a vulnerable and bleak future.
From a broad engagement with the global health system, the volume focuses on arguably the most pressing public health issue of modern times: the effective global governance of HIV/AIDS.
The underlying objective is to help generate a timely debate and understanding of the impact of globalisation on health and the plight of the vulnerable.
Click here to visit the publisher.
The Political Economy of AIDS in Africa
edited by Nana Poku and Alan Whiteside
Sub-Saharan Africa is a region devastated by HIV/AIDS. The extent of the epidemic is only now becoming clear, as increasing numbers of people with HIV are becoming III. In the absence of massively expanded prevention, treatment and care efforts, the AIDS death toll on the continent is set to escalate rapidly. Despite progress being achieved in localized settings, the alarming statistics reflect the continuing failure of advanced countries to mount a response that matches the scale and severity of the African HIV/AIDS crisis.
Over and above the colossal personal suffering, the dire social and economic consequences for fragile nation-states are already being felt, not only in health but in education, industry, agriculture, transport, human resources and economies in general. Countries already crippled by drought, poverty, debt, forced migration and civil war must now contend with massive deterioration in child survival rates and life expectancy, the erosion of the economic family base, massive and insupportable demands on health and public services, chronic labour shortages and volatile national security.
Through a critical and detailed exploration of specific case studies, this invaluable volume brings together an unparalleled arrayof international contributors to redefine the political and economic contours of this calamitous epidemic. It examines the impact of the shortfalls in the 'Global Fund' allocation, the slow pace of administrative processing of aid and the weaknesses of institutional responses to the crisis from African countries and their partners in the global health community. It is essential reading for all concerned with public health, epidemiology, HIV/AIDS research, globalisation, development, Africa, and indeed our shared future.
Impacts and Interventions: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Children of South Africa
edited by HEARD researchers, Chris Desmond and Jeff Gow.
Commissioned and funded by UNICEF, this book is a compilation of the most current statistics and analyses of the impacts of the HIV/AIDSepidemic on the children of South Africa. Over 5 million South Africans are infected with HIV/AIDS. By 2010, it is estimated that, of the 18 million children in South Africa, 3 million will be orphans. These least powerful members of our society will experience parental loss, household upheaval, increased poverty and, for those unfortunate enough to be infected themselves, death as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
This text provides a comprehensive discussion of current interventions and their effectiveness in addressing the situation. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, it is likely to become an important resource manual for those wishing to gain an understanding of how HIV/AIDS impacts on children and what we're doing about it.
Authors, including Rob Dorrington, Sonia Giese, Deborah Ewing, as well as HEARD Research Fellow, Chris Desmond and Research Associates Peter Badcock-Walters, Rose Smart and Jeff Gow, examine and critique the responses of families, communities, civil society and especially governments to the crisis confronting children and offer alternatives which may assist in alleviating these impacts.
Funded by UNICEF & published by University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
AIDS in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalisation
by Tony Barnett & Alan Whiteside
By the end of 2001 about 40 million people world-wide were living with HIV and a further 20 million had died from the disease. Most new infections occur in young adults. The poor world and especially the African continent bears the brunt of this epidemic. Eastern Europe is currently experiencing the fastest growing epidemic with India and China following in the train. This important book argues that HIV/AIDS is an epidemic of globalisation. Its trajectory can be directly linked to global inequality. Globalisation determines the scale and scope of HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS will shape international political, economic and social relations in the first decades of this century. Above all, HIV/AIDS shows the bankruptcy of national and international public health policy.
The authors look at the forces driving the epidemic and describes its impacts. They argue that HIV/AIDS is a long wave disaster that is now unfolding inexorably. Conventional measures of impact do not adequately describe its scale. They show that HIV/AIDS is already leading to unprecedented impoverishment that will be felt for generations.
Both prevention and mitigation responses have been half-hearted and inadequate - the results of this will be apparent in the years ahead. This is hardly surprising given a global order where responsibility no longer rests with national governments but rather with faceless multinational corporations or supranational bureaucracies.
This book sounds a wakeup call that all is not well in the world, and AIDS is a symptom of just how bad things are.
Contents:
- Introduction: Disease, Change, Consciousness and Denial
- The Disease and its Epidemiology
- Susceptibility: Epidemic Roots
- Susceptibility: Cases
- Why Africa?
- Vulnerability and Impact
- Introduction to Impact
- Impact: Individuals, Households and Communities
- Dependants: Orphans and the Elderly
- Subsistence Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods
- HIV/AIDS and 'For Profit' Enterprise
- Aids, Development and Economic Growth
- Government and Governance
- Responses
Author Biographies:
TONY BARNETT is Professor ofDevelopment Studies in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, and Overseas Visiting Professor at the Institute of Development Economics, Tokyo.
ALAN WHITESIDE bio here
South Africa
by Alan Whiteside & Clem Sunter
AIDS The Challenge for South Africa is an accessible book which discusses the possible origins of HIV/AIDS, but more importantly it serves to highlight the options we have in combating the spread of this epidemic.
Whiteside and Sunter propose an approach to overcome the epidemic before it is too late.
A comprehensive view of the current HIV/AIDS situation in the world and Africa is also included. In addition to this is specific reference to South Africa and the possible demographic, economic and social consequences for our society over the next two decades if nothing is done to halt the onslaught of this epidemic.
The message of the book is that we can beat HIV/AIDS, but we must all, in our own way, take appropriate action now!
The book was launched in June 2000 and the entire 12 000 first print run was sold out by November 2000, it has since been re-printed.
This book can be obtained from any good bookstore, or alternatively contact the publishers:
- Human & Rousseau
- Tel +27 21 423 3911,
- Fax: +27 21 426 5744
- Web address: www.humanrousseau.com
- ISBN #: 0-7981-4062-3
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