ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Biomedicine, Class Discrimination, Sex Education
21 Apr 2016
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History of aids in haiti: aids first emerged in haiti in the late 1970s, hiv went from africa to haiti to much of the us, poor health care, poor political conditions, education, etc. Improvement of sexual education has led to a decrease in number of partners and increase in condom use: most notable decrease of prevalence in urban areas, aids related mortality. In rural areas, declining rates of infection are a result of people dying of the disease, not because of better infrastructure, etc. Implementing new treatments and opportunities to resolve these issues. Conspiracy theories about hiv: pop-culture theories about hiv origins, blame plays a destructive social role in response to aids hiv is associated with foreignness and poverty, 1. Population-control ploy or bio-warfare: tested on lower status individuals, 4. The green monkey theory: sexual interaction between humans and primates, 5.
