MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Peer Education, Safe Sex, Methadone
19 Dec 2016
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Hiv prevention industry started in sf and nyc , fertilized by self-reliance in the discrimination against gay men, and its fruit was a culture of activism that has been plucked and exported around the world. It has had a profound effect on the way we"ve addressed the virus in other parts of the world. Treatment: antiretroviral treatment is an unqualified good thing because it acts as effective. Hiv prevention as well as keeping people alive. The gay lobby piled up for a cure in the 1980"s. The pharma companies responded with huge research effort. Failed to produce a cure but they came up with effective treatment. The lobby of hiv-infected people in the developing world weighed in demanding to bring down the prices of hiv drugs. Pisani argues that treatment makes people more likely to spread the infection because they are up-and-running. Drugs are for life and might take away from prevention efforts.
