Global Health Council (GHC36): No such thing as “HIV in Africa”
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No network in the big conference hall this morning, so no #GHC36 tweets from the Hans Rosling plenary. If you don’t know who he is, check out Gapminder.org and his TED talk. Here’s what I would have tweeted (rough transcription, emphasis is Rosling’s):
- “We need to be more thoughtful [in global health]“
- “Macro levels are always dangerous”
- “War does not explain the high rates [of HIV in Africa]“
- “We have to start to use data in global health”
- “People should be forbidden from talking about ‘HIV in Africa’”
- “There’s no such thing as ‘HIV in Africa’ – it’s so different from country to country”
it is a very sad fact that until now, we still do not have the cure for HIV~~;