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Navigating the AIDS industry: being poor and positive in Tanzania.
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How poor people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania navigate a myriad of actors, agencies and organizations to obtain the aid they need to survive is shown, which illustrates that these community-based networks of care are partly the product of the AIDS industry, which encourages the establishment of community- based organizations and voluntary service delivery rather than more formalized systems of care.Citations
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HIV and the moral economy of survival in an East African City.
TL;DR: Based on fieldwork in the city of Kisumu Kenya, the authors examines the survival of HIV-positive people on antiretroviral (ARV) medicines and situates this within broader moral economies of their lives in matters of food hunger social relationships and networks of care including NGOs.
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'Tarmacking' in the millennium city: spatial and temporal trajectories of empowerment and development in Kisumu, Kenya
TL;DR: The hopes, aspirations and trajectories of people who attach themselves as volunteers to these interventions, or who hope to do so through a process they describe as ‘tarmacking’ are followed in an attempt to grasp why and how this destination remains obscure.
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Money Talks: Moral Economies of Earning a Living in Neoliberal East Africa
Jörg Wiegratz,Egle Cesnulyte +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the societal repercussions of neoliberal policy and reform in terms of moral economy remain understudied by analysing moral economy characteristics and dynamics in neoliberalised communities, as perceived by traders in Uganda and sex workers in Kenya, and the interview data reveal perceived drivers that contributed to a significant moral dominance of money, self-interest, short-termism, opportunism and pragmatism.
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Between Fatigue and Silence: The Challenges of Conducting Research on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Jelke Boesten,Marsha Henry +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on disclosure.
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Gendering the extraverted state: the politics of the Kenyan sex workers’ movement
TL;DR: The authors argued that due to the gendered nature of the Kenyan state's extraversion processes and the resulting dual accountability to national and foreign sovereigns, the state's approach to gender issues is inconsistent and thus produces a situation where social movements with a gender rights agenda can be both included and excluded from the national political scene.
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Community-Based and -Driven Development: A Critical Review
Ghazala Mansuri,Vijayendra Rao +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the conceptual foundations of community-based and driven development (CBD/CDD) initiatives are reviewed, and the authors find that projects that rely on community participation have not been particularly effective at targeting the poor.
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'Long live Zackie, long live': AIDS activism, science and citizenship after apartheid
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the complex cultural politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, focusing on how AIDS 'dissident' science impacted on policy discourses and how AIDS activists, together with scientists, the media and health professionals responded.
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"All I eat is ARVs": the paradox of AIDS treatment interventions in central Mozambique.
TL;DR: Discourses of hunger serve as a critique of these shortcomings, and of the wider political economy underlying the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as it unfolds in a region with a complicated history and persistent problems related to poverty.
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Coping or struggling? a journey into the impact of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that in areas hard hit by AIDS, the concept of coping strategies is of limited value in explaining household experience and may divert policymakers from the enormity of the emergency.
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Poverty reduction strategy papers: Now who calls the shots?
TL;DR: The authors argued that poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) can be understood as a technology of "social control" which seeks to shape domestic political space, and that it is precisely through participation that international Non-Governmental Organisations and bilateral donors are working with the IFIs to secure ever more intimate supervision of African political communities.