Saving Lives in Africa: AIDS Treatment, Religion and the Politics of Life

by Louise Mubanda Rasmussen

In the last decade, access to AIDS treatment has rapidly increased across Sub-Saharan Africa. Saving Africans with AIDS medicine has come to represent the "best of our international development efforts." But what are the unintended effects and local implications of this life-saving project? What happens when the humanitarian imperative to alleviate suffering is implemented through local organisations in landscapes characterized by political and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138672416
• ISBN13: 9781138672413
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages