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To mark the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus, this special issue brings together a collection of articles from leading scholars engaged in, or concerned with, the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Collectively, the articles address the power relations driving HIV/AIDS, frustrating the possibility of alleviation, care & recovery & operating to relegate entire regions to a vulnerable & bleak future. Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses issues such as drug access, health as a human right, trade policy, tobacco control, poverty, national security, and gender; some focus on Africa as a whole, Zambia, and China; 11 articles. Contents: A human right to health? by Tony Evans; Drug access, patents and global health: "chaffed and waxed sufficient", by Mark Heywood; Putting gender into health and globalization debates: new perspectives and old challenges, by Lesley Doyal; Trade policy and the politics of access to drugs, by Caroline Thomas; The framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of global health governance, by Jeff Collin and others; The Global AIDS Fund: context and opportunity, by Nana K Poku; Debt, adjustment and the politics of effective response to HIV/AIDS in Africa, by Fantu Cheru; Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa, by Alan Whiteside; Politics in the hot zone: AIDS and national security in Africa, by Robert L. Ostergard, Jr.; HIV/AIDS and older women in Zambia: concern for self, worry over daughters, towers of strength, by Carolyn Baylies; The "nameless fever": the HIV/AIDS pandemic and China's women, by Neil Renwick.

Following an overview of Africa's critical economic status & the politics of relief efforts, links between this situation & the AIDS/HIV crisis are explored. The societal causes & consequences of AIDS/HIV are examined, highlighting the synergistic relationship between the epidemic & poverty. The 1996 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative by the World Bank & International Monetary Fund is evaluated, & deemed a dismal failure in alleviating African debt. The relationship between debt relief & AIDS/HIV eradication efforts is described, offering a case study of Zambia. 1 Table. K. Hyatt Stewart

"Kenya, like the rest of Africa, has gone through three sets of constitutional crises. The first related to the trauma of colonialism and struggle for independence. The second a period of constitutional dictatorship and the clamor for reform. The third, most recent crisis, being one of identity, legitimacy and the inability of the state to discharge its functions which has resulted in civil unrest, violent ethnic conflicts, poverty, social exclusion and inequality. The Making of the Constitution of Kenya examines the processes, issues and challenges of constitution making, governance and legitimacy in that country and the lessons that can be learned for others on the continent. Equipping the reader with a sound historical perspective on constitutional developments and the crisis of constitutional legitimacy in Kenya it gives an invaluable insight into the normative and political complexities involved in evolving a truly democratic and widely acceptable constitutional order in Africa."-- Publisher's summary