HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antiviral Drug, Golden Urn, Endangerment
17 Jan 2017
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Gillett text: hiv/aids: in 1981 centre for disease control and prevention report, institutional response, gays and lesbians response, community organizing arises, health = multi conditions attached, movement begins, need to struggle for self determination. Activists benefit the cause in three ways. Templates (3) for the grass roots movement. Issue of identity clarification as there is a move from a medical diagnosis to a social and political identity: pwa survival strategies (3, positive, pragmatic, politics. International standardization of treatment and drug approval: unique needs of women given their unequal social position (issue of children, an international development fund to assist poorer countries, recognition of poverty as a co-factor in hiv/aids. Here in montreal pwa seated at the table and they have a public voice: social justice and clinical science two issues, social justice, clinical science the need here was to link social, political and scientific bodies. There was an urgent need for service, visibility, education and advocacy.
