ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sick Role, Structural Violence, Incubation Period
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Fast forward to 2020: achieve 90-90-90 (unaids: 90% people w/ hiv know their hiv status, 90% people who know their hiv status are receiving treatment, 90% people on treatment have suppressive viral loads. State: loans vs. donations, more national debts (vicious cycle, structural violence = poverty, racism, sexism, gender inequality, sexual oppression = spread of hv, access to treatment as a human right and a global concerted commitment. Asking for the release of more aids medication which the people believe the government have. There was no method of dealing with aids in the us. People were dying and the drugs to battle the virus was too toxic to use. Asking for the design of trials to be reformed and be safer and be done the best possible way. The aids activists ended up going to a pharmaceutical company and got the drugs they needed as well as a possible new drug.
