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HIV virus can have common definition around the world, but people's perceptions to the virus in the society differ and I am interested in sharing my experiences in this topic.

Hans Rosling: Watch the end of poverty

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July 03, 2007

In addition to Hans talk to world perception, here talking about the end of poverty.

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HIV/TB services

June 10, 2010

It is still a debate how, when and where to integrate these two programs... http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89358

Laurie Garrett, one of the global health systems leaders, wrote in Foreign Affairs in Jan/Feb issue about how HIV/AIDS related funds are changing the development agendas. It was quite provocative article that the person can agree with her about other public health priorities, like children pneumonia, but at the same time a study in Zimbabwe showed there is three times risk for HV-ve children to die for HIV+ve mothers in compare to their peers who have HIV+ve mothers. Maybe holistic view to the problem would be the best? Summary of Garrett article Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems -- and unless the brain drain from the developing world can be stopped -- poor countries could be pushed even further into trouble, in yet another tale of well-intended foreign m...