Moving Health Sovereignty in Africa

Disease, Governance, Climate Change

Andrew F. Cooper, Hany Besada, John J. Kirton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781409450481
• eBook ISBN: 9781317093787
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Medicina interna y diagnóstico

Today's era of intense globalization has unleashed dynamic movements of people, pathogens, and pests that overwhelm the static territorial jurisdictions on which the governance provided by sovereign states and their formal intergovernmental institutions is based. This world of movement calls for new ideas and institutions to govern people's health, above all in Africa, where the movements and health challenges are the most acute. This book insightfully explores these challenges in ways that put the perspectives of Africans themselves at centre stage. It begins with the long central and still compelling African health challenge of combating the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. It then examines the global governance responses by the major multilateral organizations of the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and the newer informal flexible democratically oriented ones of the Group of Eight. It also addresses the compounding health challenge created by climate change to assess both its intensifying impact on Africa and how all international institutions have largely failed to link climate and health in their governance response. It concludes with several recommendations about the innovative ideas and institutions that offer a way to closing the great global governance gaps and thus improving Africans' health and that of citizens beyond.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• PART I INTRODUCTION
• PART II A FRICA’S HEALTH CHALLENGES AND CONCEPTS
• PART III G LOBAL GOVERNANCE RESPONSES
• Bibliography
• Index