'For many of us, this spring feels like the early days of AIDS epidemic—including the fear, uncertainty and criminally-delayed response by the federal government which has meant, and will continue to mean, that people will die unnecessarily.' Sears_Brad:
For many of us, this spring feels like the early days of AIDS epidemic—including the fear, uncertainty and criminally-delayed response by the federal government which has meant, and will continue to mean, that people will die unnecessarily.Epidemics flow quickly towards pre-existing disparities.
But what we can learn from HIV is that we can’t lose sight of the individual in our pursuit of public health. For this to work, we need people to trust and engage with our health care and public health systems. Pictured here addressing the UN General Assembly in 1987, Jonathan Mann made the connection between the AIDS epidemic and human rights, particularly the rights of women in underdeveloped countries and racial minorities in the U.S. In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, people lost their jobs, children were kicked out of schools, municipal pools were drained and dying gay men were stacked up in hospital hallways because there were not enough beds or staff to treat them.
In the equal rights challenge that followed, the court noted that the lines around the city blocks had odd indentations leaving individual houses outside of the quarantine: where white people lived. The court also noted that while the quarantine might protect the rest of the city, it actually made things worse for the Chinese-Americans living in Chinatown, who were not being quarantined from each other and who were being blocked off from healthcare providers.
But acting up means more than tweeting, posting, hoarding and isolating: It means deep and sustained action.
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