The “Securitisation” of HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa

A Critical Feminist Lens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12652017
AutoresColleen O’manique (autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas24-47
Fecha de publicación2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolicy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1449-4035 • E-ISSN: 1839-3373
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/s1449-4035(05)70048-5
OpenAlexW2017546615
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas21

This paper offers an account of how the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is understood as a threat to security, placing the various accounts of the securitisation of AIDS in the context of the human security situation in SSA. The first section examines in a very general way, the context of the “security crisis” of AIDS in Africa. The second part identifies the ways in which the HIV/AIDS pandemic is being “securitised”, and some of the potential implications of emerging security discourses for HIV/AIDS policy on the continent. It closes with an account of some of the more critical human security accounts on HIV/AIDS in SSA and finally, suggests how a critical feminist lens might broaden and deepen these perspectives

Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Critical security studies · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human security · Network security policy · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology