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From: https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_bassett_why_your_doctor_should_care_about_social_justice?language=en&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tedspread
New York City Health Commissioner and Social Justice Warrior Supreme
Voted "Most Offended", 1997-99, 2000, 2003, and 2009
Voted "Most Offended", 1997-99, 2000, 2003, and 2009
...in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus.
But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities...
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| SocJus believes that only by making everyone the same can we have a better world. Where have we heard that before? |
So.. the real problem is... not the people dying from a disease?
The fact that some had more money than others
- that's what she
focussed on.
Meanwhile, back in the land of sanity, where the actual scientists live...
Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and a declining incidence of HIV infection have led to a steep fall globally in the number of adults and children dying from HIV-related causes.
Science
- done by people with scientific degrees, not fucking Gender Studies bullshite,
The estimated 1.5 million [1.4 – 1.7 million] people dying from HIV globally in 2013 were 22% fewer than in 2009 and 35% fewer than when the number peaked in 2005.
solves the problem
Children (younger than 15 years) in 2013 had 31% fewer deaths from HIV compared with 2009 and 40% fewer deaths compared with 2005.piece by piece
... and puts us on the path to making AIDs
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