Durban book launch: African responses to HIV/AIDS
This book is about the gap between what governments say about HIV and AIDS and what they do. Edited by Prof. Tim Quinlan and Segun Ige.
This book is about the gap between what governments say about HIV and AIDS and what they do, recognising that the quality of leadership to contain the HIV pandemic has varied widely across Africa and within countries since the mid-1980s. There is illustration and comparison of effective and ineffective leadership which the editors frame in terms of 'transformational' and 'incidental' leadership. There is critique of many conventional perspectives and myths; to name two: the 'slow response' argument and African sexual practices facilitating the transmission of HIV. It is a book which highlights what can be learned from this history and from African states which have contained and have begun to contain the pandemic.
Date: 23 August 2012Time: 17:30
Venue: Ikes Books Store, 48a Florida Road, Morningside, Durban