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AIDS as a crisis in social reproduction

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Using the conceptual framework of social reproduction as a way of reassessing the AIDS crisis in Africa, this paper finds contradictory tendencies: a devastating impact on agricultural modes of livelihood which sustain the majority and which enable workers to present themselves as cheap labour, but also a crisis for the reproduction of capital as its supply of such labour is depleted. The impact on and response to the epidemic by the state is explored as well as its reflection of marked gender and class inequalities. Conversely the impetus to certain fractions of capital which benefit from AIDS and the confrontation of the state and pharmaceutical companies by an emergent populist movement demanding the right to treatment, exposes the extent to which transformation rather than simple reproduction is in evidence.

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  • Janet Bujra, 2004. "AIDS as a crisis in social reproduction," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(102), pages 631-638, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:31:y:2004:i:102:p:631-638
    DOI: 10.1080/0305624042000327787
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