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Privatizing health services in Africa
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ISBN: 0813525810 Year: 1999 Publisher: New Brunswick New Jersey London Rutgers University Press

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The political economy of AIDS in Africa
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ISBN: 0754638979 0754638987 9780754638988 9780754638971 Year: 2004 Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub.,


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La politique de la peur : MSF et l'épidémie d'Ebola en Afrique de l'Ouest
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ISBN: 9782507054687 2507054689 Year: 2017 Publisher: Waterloo : La Renaissance du Livre,

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Décembre 2013, Guinée : un petit garçon succombe à une maladie non diagnostiquée. Ce décès mystérieux marque le début d’une épidémie d’Ebola de deux ans qui va faire trembler le monde et menacer nombre de pays, riches et pauvres confondus, en divers endroits de la planète. Le 31 mars 2014, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lance un avertissement : cette épidémie, qui sévit désormais en Guinée, en Sierra Leone et au Liberia, est sans précédent, « hors de contrôle ». Il faudra cependant attendre le 8 août pour que l’OMS finisse par déclarer que l’épidémie est une « urgence de santé publique de portée internationale ». En septembre, lorsqu’un cas est diagnostiqué aux États-Unis, la majeure partie du monde tourne enfin son attention sur ces trois petits pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest et la machine médiatique s’emballe, produisant en série des scénarios catastrophes. Au cours des mois suivants, l’épidémie entame un recul et, le 29 mars 2016, l’OMS en déclare officiellement la fin. La maladie à virus Ebola aura contaminé 28 646 personnes et fait 11 308 morts. Le maître mot de cette épidémie ? La peur. Peur naturelle liée à une maladie mortelle, peur alimentée par les tenants du pouvoir afin d’obtenir des bénéfices politiques. Peur « à distance » sur les autres continents, mais aussi peur des malades. Au sein d’un tel chaos - une situation inédite pour l’organisation -, MSF s’est retrouvée contrainte d’agir. Cette épidémie a non seulement mis à rude épreuve ses valeurs éthiques, mais a aussi montré les limites de ses capacités en termes d’infrastructures médicales et logistiques. C’est pour examiner le rôle de l’organisation et tirer les enseignements de cette crise sans précédent que MSF a conçu La Politique de la peur, ouvrant même ses archives internes aux contributeurs. De façon impitoyable, la maladie a mis au jour la fragilité du corps humain, de la société et du corps politique. Les textes de cet ouvrage racontent les pans de cette histoire à travers le prisme de diverses disciplines (anthropologie, médecine, histoire…), mais aussi de quatre témoignages narrant une expérience personnelle de l’épidémie. Car ce qui importe, c’est ce qui se passera demain et la manière dont ceux qui auront à faire des choix difficiles pourront bénéficier des leçons du passé.


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Global health in Africa
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ISBN: 9780821420683 9780821420676 0821420682 0821420674 9780821444719 0821444719 Year: 2013 Publisher: Athens, Ohio

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Global Health in Africa explores the histories of global health initiatives to control disease in Africa. It provides valuable historical and anthropological research that integrates the social and biomedical sciences in the service of global public health. Its aim is to broaden the training of a new generation of global public health professionals. This new collection of nine chapters explores past global health interventions, some of which have failed and cast long shadows of unintended consequences. The contributors reveal long-standing policy and unquestioned assumptions that continue to guide some contemporary interventions. The volume as a whole highlights the utility of bridging the divide between social and biomedical sciences in order to improve the delivery of global health services. -- from back cover.

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Public health --- Medical policy --- Santé publique --- Politique sanitaire --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- International cooperation --- Congrès --- Coopération internationale --- Africa --- Afrique --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses. --- Medical policy -- Africa -- Congresses. --- Public health -- Africa -- Congresses. --- Public health -- International cooperation -- Congresses. --- Public Policy --- Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Internationality --- Sociology --- Medicine --- Social Control Policies --- Population Characteristics --- Social Sciences --- Health Occupations --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Policy --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Social Control, Formal --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Social Conditions --- International Cooperation --- Public Health --- Health Policy --- Health & Biological Sciences --- World Health --- Santé publique --- Congrès --- Coopération internationale --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Government policy --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Treaties --- Foreign Aid --- Aid, Foreign --- Cooperation, International --- Treaty --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policies, National --- Health Policy, National --- National Health Policies --- Policies, Health --- Policies, National Health --- Policy, Health --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Africa. --- Healthcare Policy --- Healthcare Policies --- Policy, Healthcare --- Living Conditions --- Condition, Living --- Condition, Social --- Conditions, Living --- Conditions, Social --- Living Condition --- Social Condition --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care


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Les professionnels de santé en Afrique de l'Ouest : entre savoirs et pratiques : paludisme, tuberculose et prévention au Sénégal et en Côte d'Ivoire
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ISBN: 2747578771 9782747578776 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris: L'Harmattan,

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Health Personnel --- Health Policy --- Health Care --- Malaria --- Tuberculosis --- Medical personnel --- Medical personnel and patient --- Medical anthropology --- Medical policy --- Medical care --- Personnel médical --- Relations personnel médical-patient --- Anthropologie médicale --- Politique sanitaire --- Soins médicaux --- Paludisme --- Tuberculose --- Prevention --- Prévention --- #SBIB:316.334.3M52 --- #SBIB:327.4H60 --- Medische sociologie: professionele aspecten van de hulpverlening --- Derde wereld: ontwikkeling, sociale verandering: algemeen --- Consumption (Disease) --- Lungs --- Phthisis --- Pulmonary tuberculosis --- TB (Disease) --- Chest --- Mycobacterial diseases --- Mycobacterium tuberculosis --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Health care personnel --- Health care professionals --- Health manpower --- Health personnel --- Health professions --- Health sciences personnel --- Health services personnel --- Healthcare professionals --- Medical manpower --- Professional employees --- Patient and medical personnel --- Patients --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Ague --- Chills and fever --- Intermittent fever --- Malarial fever --- Fever --- Protozoan diseases --- Diseases --- Government policy --- Anthropological aspects --- Medical personnel - Africa, West --- Medical personnel and patient - Africa, West --- Medical anthropology - Africa, West --- Medical policy - Africa, West --- Medical care - Africa, West --- Malaria - Cote d'Ivoire - Prevention --- Malaria - Senegal - Prevention --- Tuberculosis - Cote d'Ivoire - Prevention --- Tuberculosis - Senegal - Prevention --- Médecine préventive --- Professions de santé --- Santé publique --- Afrique occidentale --- Sénégal --- Côte d'Ivoire


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Para-states and medical science : making African global health
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ISBN: 0822357496 082237627X 0822357356 1322879923 Year: 2015 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups have not supplanted the primacy of the nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care, both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of regulation, access, and - albeit sometimes counterintuitively - trust for their people. “The state” has morphed into the “para-state” - not a monolithic and predictable source of sovereignty and governance, but a shifting, and at times ephemeral, figure. Tracing the emergence of the “global health” paradigm in Africa in the treatment of HIV, malaria, and leprosy, this book challenges familiar notions of African statehood as weak or illegitimate by elaborating complex new frameworks of governmentality that can be simultaneously functioning and dysfunctional.

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AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Africa. --- Medical care -- Research -- Africa. --- Medical policy -- Africa. --- Medical care --- Medical policy --- AIDS (Disease) --- Science --- Medicine --- HIV Infections --- Public Policy --- Health --- Slow Virus Diseases --- Environment and Public Health --- Virus Diseases --- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes --- Lentivirus Infections --- Health Care --- Social Control Policies --- Health Occupations --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Population Characteristics --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral --- Social Control, Formal --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Retroviridae Infections --- Diseases --- Policy --- Immune System Diseases --- Sociology --- Social Sciences --- RNA Virus Infections --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome --- Health Policy --- Public Health --- Research --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Public Health - General --- Treatment --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Government policy --- africa --- medicine --- public health --- Expatriate --- Ghadamès language --- Malaria


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Intimate interventions in global health
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ISBN: 1108206344 1108214444 1108215793 1107462886 1316117030 1108217141 1108223893 1108218490 1107090725 1108222544 9781107090729 9781316117033 9781107462885 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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When addressing the factors shaping HIV prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa, it is important to consider the role of family planning programs that preceded the epidemic. In this book, Rachel Sullivan Robinson argues that both globally and locally, those working to prevent HIV borrowed and adapted resources, discourses, and strategies used for family planning. By combining statistical analysis of all sub-Saharan African countries with comparative case studies of Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal, Robinson also shows that the nature of countries' interactions with the international community, the strength and composition of civil society, and the existence of technocratic leaders influenced variation in responses to HIV. Specifically, historical and existing relationships with outside actors, the nature of nongovernmental organizations, and perceptions of previous interventions strongly structured later health interventions through processes of path dependence and policy feedback. This book will be of great use to scholars and practitioners interested in global health, international development, African studies and political science.

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HIV infections --- Family planning services. --- Sex. --- World health. --- Global health --- International health --- Public health --- Medical geography --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Family planning clinics --- Family planning programs --- Clinics --- Reproductive health services --- Social service --- Prevention. --- International cooperation --- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- AIDS (Disease) --- Family planning --- Transcultural medical care --- Cross-cultural medical care --- Cross-cultural medicine --- Transcultural medicine --- Medical care --- Social medicine --- Parenthood, Planned --- Planned parenthood --- Planning --- Birth intervals --- Family size --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- HIV Infections - prevention & control --- Family Planning Services - methods --- Sexual Behavior --- Behavior Control - methods --- Public Policy --- Global Health --- HIV infections - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Prevention --- Family planning - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- AIDS (Disease) - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Family planning services - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Health behavior - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Medical policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- HIV Infections --- Family Planning Services --- Behavior Control --- Family planning services --- Health behavior --- Medical policy

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