[PDF] Ethics Aids In Africa eBook

Author : A. A. Van Niekerk
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780864866738

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Author : Sharlene Swartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317982487

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The term ‘moral’ has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contrast to moral education as a vehicle of cultural imperialism and social control, this volume shows moral education to be concerned with both private and public morality, with communal and national relationships between human beings, as well as between people and their environment. Drawing on distinctive perspectives from philosophy, economics, sociology and education, it offers the African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho as a plausible alternative to Western approaches to morality and shows how African ethics speaks to political and economic life, including ethnic conflict and HIV/AIDS, and may be an antidote to the current practice of timocracy that values money over people. The volume provides sociological tools for understanding the lived morality of those marginalised by poverty, and analyses the effects of culture, religion and modern secularisation on moral education. With contributions from fourteen African scholars, this book challenges dominant frameworks, and begins conversations for mutual benefit across the North-South divide. It has global implications, not just, but especially, where moral education is undertaken in pluralist contexts and in the presence of economic disparity. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Moral Education.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309212073

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HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.

Author : Getnet Tadele
Publisher : Springer
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137009950

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This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2004-11-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309165830

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An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually. In recent years, many HIV-infected patients in wealthy nations have enjoyed significantly longer, good-quality lives as a result of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, most infected individuals live in the poorest regions of the world, where ART is virtually nonexistent. The consequent death toll in these regionsâ€"especially sub-Saharan Africaâ€"is begetting economic and social collapse. To inform the multiple efforts underway to deploy antiretroviral drugs in resource-poor settings, the Institute of Medicine committee was asked to conduct an independent review and assessment of rapid scale-up ART programs. It was also asked to identify the components of effective implementation programs. At the heart of the committee's report lie five imperatives: Immediately introduce and scale up ART programs in resource-poor settings. Devise strategies to ensure high levels of patient adherence to complicated treatment regimens. Rapidly address human-resource shortages to avoid the failure of program implementation. Continuously monitor and evaluate the programs to form the most effective guidelines and treatment regimens for each population. Prepare to sustain ART for decades.

Author : Deon Rossouw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Written specifically for the African context, this book provides an introduction to the theory required for studying business ethics and practical guidance for moral decision making.