INTE 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Forego, United Nations Development Programme, Transphobia
5 May 2018
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Ffar 291/Inte 398 – Intro HIV Class
Lesson 8
8.1 Intro Video
-consider how prevention strategies need to acc for structural barriers
-consider ways to recognize limits of personal agency (ability) in risk calculations
-ability to calculate their vulnerability to AIDS
*trying to bring everything together
8.2 Meet Jonathan Mann Video
-one of the first ppl responsible for addressing the pandemic
-extremely influential
-importance of structural factors on spread and transmission of HIV/AIDS
-all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed w reason and
conscience and should act towards one another in spirit of brotherhood
-first encountered HIV/AIDS in central south africa in the 80s
-1986 - started to dev the world health org program
-became first worldwide effort to hold the pandemic and it quickly achieved an impact
-he was a visionary - he saw HIV thru diff lens
-he had understanding about the humanity of the disease
-he lifted HIV/AIDS in ppl's lives and helped put it on world strata
-first phase: mid 1970s, not sure where, it was the silent phase, virus circulating around the
world undetected
-second phase: how learned about AIDS, 1981-85, the discovery and that its worldwide
-third phase: 85-88 - global mobilization - more rapid and extensive of resources to fight the
disease
-fourth phase: early 1988 - no name for that period
-looked at HIV as human rights issue - he saw what was going on
-one of reactions of society: go back to what they were worrying about before like race, sex
-pressure on society and those that are prejudiced, pressure again
-from 1985-88 - agenda established, described AIDS involving econ, social, cultural, pol impact
too - development prob, not just med prob
-the most vulnerable, marginalized sectors are the first affected by this epidemic so have to
make sure their rights are protected
-impressed by quality of ppl that lived to rise challenge of AIDS
-he had holistic perspective - best one to fight a disease like AIDS
-compassion = major tool of AIDS
-if dot protet rights of edagered ppl, all rights uproteted
8.3 Responding to HIV/AIDS: A Historical Perspective Reading
-the global response to HIV/AIDS show that how a prob is defined determines what we believe
can be done about it and from there what is actually done to address it
-each stage in evolution (the response to HIV/AIDS) = learning process, a building on experience
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-sense of urgency defined the prob
-specifying risk behs as central concern = risk-reduction programs to change (ind) behs
-programs: info, educ, communication & provision of clinic-based services
*preventing discrimination towards HIV-infected ppl and ppl w AIDS
-epidemic was disproportionally affecting pops in developing countries and marginalized pops in
industrialized countries
-public health drew on human rights framework to analyze societally-based vulnerability and to
guide efforts at societal transformation
-combined HIV risk reduction and vulnerability reduction strategies in order to add a human
rights dimension, and thereby create a modern public health
-most recent phase in evolving understanding of the epidemic = to see human beh as a blend of
ind charact and a societal context best defined by the concepts and the lang of human rights
human rights violations are now recognized to be primordial root causes of vulnerability to the
epidemic
8.4 From Behaviour to Structure Lecture
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25
-Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself
and of his fam, including food, clothing, housing, and med care and necessary social services,
and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age
or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control
-global standard to access to wellness
Chronology of Strategies
-The global response to HIV/AIDS clearly illustrates the maxim that how a prob is defined
determines what we believe can be done about it, and from there what is actually done to
address it
-The history of the response to HIV/AIDS has developed in 4 phases:
-from a danger to be alerted about
-to a prob of ind beh
-to a societally contextualized behavioural issue, and finally,
-to a human rights-linked challenge
-how this impact ppl's ability to transmit the disease
-initially, was just a danger out there, a risk that could impact anyone and then started looking
more specifically like at behs
-became more clear that how might behave was very much linked to social and pol context so
the structures in which they found themselves
-connect health and HIV to a human rights linked context
Fear
-A sense of urgency defined the prob, and the public info materials developed in this period
often emphasized "danger" at the expense of clear info about prevention measures
-ppl still hold on to old strategies and try to reintegrate old strategies
-AIDS is fatal - prevention strategy dev in the 2000s (poster shown)
-things happen simultaneously
-diff ppl use diff strategies sometimes simultaneously, sometimes at diff time periods
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Document Summary
Consider how prevention strategies need to acc for structural barriers. Consider ways to recognize limits of personal agency (ability) in risk calculations. One of the first ppl responsible for addressing the pandemic. Importance of structural factors on spread and transmission of hiv/aids. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed w reason and conscience and should act towards one another in spirit of brotherhood. First encountered hiv/aids in central south africa in the 80s. 1986 - started to dev the world health org program. Became first worldwide effort to hold the pandemic and it quickly achieved an impact. He was a visionary - he saw hiv thru diff lens. He had understanding about the humanity of the disease. He lifted hiv/aids in ppl"s lives and helped put it on world strata. First phase: mid 1970s, not sure where, it was the silent phase, virus circulating around the world undetected.
