ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cholera, Magic Johnson, Syndemic
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Negating what public health knows about disease; we used to be a lot more compliant prior to internet/new age of media and info. and mis info. Coloured how we deal with disease = re- emergence of disease: we may not have right drugs, misallocation, etc. but also b/c we don"t follow public health messages social climate created that involves misinfo. Hiv is a virus that causes the disease of aids; you may have the virus causing immundep. and red. of lifespan but might not nec. have aids. Euro. , white males, affluent, higher ses, coming from nations with good docts/press/dissem. of info. B/c those were first patients early on; increasingly it is a disease of impoverished peoples; Number of new cases have decreased over time; progression has slowed; total among living with it has decreased (some dying and some reduction in incidence rate) Has to do w/ interventions (safe sex and drug use) Half of all effected have so far died.
