Introduction:25 years of living with HIV/AIDS: challenges and prospects |
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| Authors: | NANA K POKU ALAN WHITESIDE |
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| Institution: | John Ferguson Professor of African Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He was formerly Director of the United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. He is also the Programme designer and leading manager of the International Development Association funded Treatment Acceleration Programme within the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. His recent publications include Africa's AIDS crisis: how the poor are dying;(2006), The political economy of AIDS in Africa (with Alan Whiteside, 2004), and Global health and governance: HIV/AIDS (with Alan Whiteside, 2005) . Commissioner on the United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. He has also established the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of Natal where he serves as Director. His more recent publications include The political economy of AIDS in Africa;(with Nana K. Poku, 2004) and Aids in the twenty-first century: disease and globalisation (with Tony Barnett, 2002, revised and updated edition forthcoming April 2006). |
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| Abstract: | To mark the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus, this special issue brings together a collection of articles from leading scholars engaged in, or concerned with, the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Collectively, the articles address the power relations driving HIV/AIDS, frustrating the possibility of alleviation, care and recovery and operating to relegate entire regions to a vulnerable and bleak future. |
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