“Seropedagogy”

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (140) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Robert Franco
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis ◽  
Racial Disparities In Health ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract Since the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, pedagogy has been a crucial survival strategy, especially when government agencies failed to prevent mass deaths. However, contemporary sex education on HIV/AIDS—if taught to undergraduates before they arrive on campus—often does not account for the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on racial minorities and global South countries. In this teaching essay, the author describes how his course on the history of HIV/AIDS takes a global approach to highlight that the AIDS crisis is not over. Starting with histories of HIV/AIDS in the United States, Haiti, China, and elsewhere that sought to find a scapegoat for the pandemic, the course then turns to the global power of the pharmaceutical industry. It examines the marketing and lobbying strategies of companies such as Gilead, which use the stigma of HIV/AIDS to transform impoverished global South countries into new markets for research and capital extraction. Finally, it also highlights how the AIDS crisis remains an ongoing struggle against racial disparities in health care that prevent access to life-saving treatments and preventative drugs such as Truvada and Descovy for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Using a range of materials from podcasts to pills, the author introduces students to the globalizing forces that take the bodies of the poor, women, and Black, Latinx, trans, and global South citizens as expendable in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

scholarly journals Ebola and the Evolving Ethics of Quarantine

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hughes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Treatment Protocols ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
Hiv Aids

Within the context of the history of quarantine, both worldwide and in the United States, this essay analyzes current quarantine policies related to Ebola with an inquiry into both related bio-ethical concerns and an analysis of the ways in which emerging Ebola pharmaceutical treatments, particularly the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, may shift quarantine policies. By way of background, the historical roots of quarantine are first briefly examined alongside an analysis of why quarantine policies were not instituted in relationship to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Then, current quarantine policies and procedures in both the developed and developing world are delineated, with an analysis of the application of these quarantine policies to Ebola. An overview is provided of how new treatment protocols may change Ebola quarantine alongside related bio-ethical concerns.

scholarly journals From Internationalism to Nationalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-317
Author(s):  
Dwaipayan Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Global South ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series of difficult questions. Are vaccines a human right? Should patents be enforced in a way that puts people in the global South behind in a global queue? These questions are not new; the world struggled with these ethical dilemmas during the HIV-AIDS pandemic at the end of the twentieth century, when global South governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical corporations for the right to essential life-saving drugs. Can the same strategies be mobilized to deal with inequalities in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine? This article demonstrates a technological and geopolitical shift in the last two decades that hinder global South solidarities actualized during the HIV-AIDS pandemic. Instead, Banerjee argues that in the present, multinational corporations and Euro-American governments are trying to reverse some of the key political visions and victories of HIV-AIDS internationalism, exploiting the urgency of the Covid-19 crisis to put in place a new vaccine apartheid.

scholarly journals A Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among Blacks in the United States, 1981–2009

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (S2) ◽  
pp. S351-S359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Y. Sutton ◽  
Rhondette L. Jones ◽  
Richard J. Wolitski ◽  
Janet C. Cleveland ◽  
Hazel D. Dean ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
Hiv Aids

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Dan Royles
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter considers what it means to write the history of a crisis that has not yet ended, and briefly traces connections among the stories told in previous chapters. It connects these stories to the ongoing fight for health equity in the United States, including the author’s involvement in the fight to preserve the Affordable Care Act in the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Finally, it compares HIV/AIDS to climate change, as both are existential crises that will disproportionately affect poor communities of color.

Introduction: Memorialization, Gay Assimilation, and American Religion

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Brett Krutzsch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Religion ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Gay Activism ◽  
History Of

The introduction addresses how gay activists memorialized select people as martyrs in order to influence national debates over LGBT rights. In particular, the chapter lays out how religion shaped both the process of gay political memorialization as well as gay assimilation in the United States more broadly. The introduction additionally covers the history of American gay activism, the rise of assimilatory tactics following the American AIDS crisis, and the promotion of gays as “normal” citizens. As became common at the turn of the twenty-first century, many gay activists argued that gays were just like straights and, therefore, deserving of equal rights. The chapter also details how Protestant sexual standards shaped the nation’s ideas about acceptable sexual citizens and, in turn, how gay activists promoted Protestant values as necessary for the rights of full American citizenship.

Correlation between history of contact with people living with HIV AIDS PWAs and tolerant attitudes toward HIV AIDS and PWAs in rural Thailand

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 482-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Takai ◽  
Som Arch Wongkhomthong ◽  
Akira Akabayashi ◽  
Ichiro Kai ◽  
Gen Ohi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Attitude Score ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Preventative Intervention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Village People ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
Hiv Aids

This study examines the hypothesis that people who have more contact with PWAs people living with AIDS are more tolerant than those who have no contact with them. Four provinces with different incidence of AIDS in 4 different regions of Thailand were selected. Structured questionnaire interviews were conducted with village people, asking about their history of contact with PWAs, and knowledge and attitudes toward HIV AIDS and PWAs n =434 . An lAttitude Score , which indicates an accepting attitude or tolerance toward HIV AIDS and PWAs, was developed using the results of the questionnaire on attitudes. Six factors: sex, education, age, province, knowledge, and history of contact with PWAs were positively correlated with the Attitude Score. After a multiple regression analysis, contact with PWAs was significantly associated with Attitude Score. This study is one of the first analytical studies conducted in a non Western country to show that people s tolerant attitudes towards HIV AIDS and PWAs are positively related to their history of contact with HIV AIDS and PWAs. This finding should have important implications for future educational programmes and preventative intervention.

HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Katito
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter compares HIV/AIDS policies in Brazil and South Africa over the thirty-year history of the epidemic, focusing on the period between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s. The discussion lays emphasis on the largely divergent policy responses of the two states to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The chapter begins with an overview of Brazil and South Africa's HIV/AIDS policies, along with critical factors that explain why, despite being two similar societies, they responded so differently to the epidemic. These factors include the nature and the timing of democratic transition and the relatively stronger Brazilian civil society. The chapter argues that Brazil acted far more aggressively than South Africa against the HIV/AIDS epidemic by implementing comprehensive prevention, treatment and care policies. As a result, the Brazilian government has been able to contain the spread of the virus across its population. In contrast, negligence, denial, delay and fragmentation have considerably exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

Promiske Sexualität oder monogame Beziehung?

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (84) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Adrian Lehne ◽  
Veronika Springmann
Keyword(s):  
Safer Sex ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Norms ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract A question that was and remains central to the history of homosexualities is how relationships and sexuality are interlinked. Through discussions around heteronormative relationship norms, the West German gay1 (liberation/rights) movement engaged in heated debates around the question of how sexuality could and should be lived out. This article outlines that debate, starting with the release of Rosa von Praunheim’s film »Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt« (»It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives«; 1971) and proceeding to examine the convulsions of the AIDS crisis. As the debate went on, its focus shif ted from morality to responsibility as the central topic. The increasing visibility of lived sexuality brought about by AIDS and the development of safer sex in reaction to HIV/AIDS in particular contributed to establishing the concept of responsible sexuality. This concept could in turn be positioned against a coupling of relationship and sexuality predicated on moral imperatives.

SURVIVORS: Archiving the history of bulletin board systems and the AIDS crisis

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Brewster ◽  
Bonnie Ruberg
Keyword(s):  
Support Group ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Electronic Support ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

The history of the Internet and the history of the HIV/AIDS crisis are fundamentally intertwined. Because of the precarious nature of primary early Internet materials, however, documentation that reflects this relationship is limited. Here, we present and analyse an important document that offers considerable insight in this area: a full printout of the bulletin board system (BBS) discussion group “SURVIVORS.” Run by David Charnow, SURVIVORS operated as an “electronic support group” for members living with HIV/AIDS from 1987 to 1990. These dates represent a period of overlap between both the AIDS crisis in America and the use of BBSs as a predecessor to contemporary Internet technologies. The contents of SURVIVORS were printed by Charnow before his death in 1990 and later donated to the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. Through our discussion of these documents, we articulate the striking relationship between the SURVIVORS printout as a material document that preserves a digital past and the lives of those whose stories are contained within the printout. We argue that it is not only the content but indeed the precarious, shifting media format of the SURVIVORS printout, born digital and now preserved on paper, that gives it its meaning. Thirty years after his death, Charnow’s printout of SURVIVORS keeps a critical piece of the interrelated histories of HIV/AIDS and the Internet alive, while also raising valuable questions about the archiving of these histories.

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