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Saving Depraved Africans in a Neoliberal Age

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  • Wiebe Nauta

    (Maastricht University, The Netherlands. [email: w.nauta@maastrichtuniversity.nl])

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This article critically examines the fight against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the epidemic revealed its devastating power when neoliberalism emerged as a dominant force in economic and development thinking, it investigates how policies like SAPs have affected the severity of the epidemic in a country like Zambia. Moreover, the article examines how the dominance of medical and private actors has influenced the fight against HIV/AIDS. By, for example, tracing the influence of the pharmaceutical industry and conservative Christian forces in PEPFAR, it is argued that the epidemic has been largely conceptualized in biomedical and behavioural terms – placing too much emphasis on African sexuality and culture – while ignoring structural factors like poverty and inequality. As a result, inhumane conditions for millions persist and solutions that would be unacceptable for the affluent are still implemented. Inspired by the work of Farmer (2005) and Pogge (2008), a more inclusive development agenda is outlined that involves structural democratic reforms of global institutions.

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  • Wiebe Nauta, 2010. "Saving Depraved Africans in a Neoliberal Age," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 26(3), pages 355-385, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jodeso:v:26:y:2010:i:3:p:355-385
    DOI: 10.1177/0169796X1002600304
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