Re: AIDS in the USA, AIDS in the World
On Feb 13, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Global AIDS drug prices have much more to do with struggles over patent than with ACT UP and other US AIDS activist orgs, just as big race and class gaps in infection rates, mortality rates, etc. in the USA have much more to do with economic inequality, lack of single-payer health care, the “war on crimes” (which has led to “[r]oughly one-fifth of black adult males in the United States” having served time [”New Perspectives on the Social and Economic Contexts of HIV/AIDS Infection,” Focus Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall-Winter 2006, http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc243f.pdf]), and so on than with ACT UP and other US AIDS activist orgs.
Worse, ACT-UP hasn’t done a thing about global warming, not to
mention baldness.
Doug