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Pernicious epistemically justified distrust are those beliefs that are justified by the bad past actions of others, but now result in harm to oneself.
The global humanitarian crisis of millions of avoidable deaths due to lack of health is exacerbated by rapidly increasing wealth inequality.
Is the fact that HIV has been functionally cured now twice amazing? Yes, absolutely. But nearly 37 million people are still living with HIV/AIDS around the world. The needs and stories of those people are…
Saliva doesn’t transmit HIV, yet a number of states explicitly criminalize the act of spitting if one is HIV-positive. These laws are grossly out of step with our current medical and social understanding of HIV.
In an earlier post I offered two arguments for why wealthy nations have a moral obligation to address medical professional brain drain from resource-scarce developing nations. But once one acknowledges that wealthy nations have this…
The majority of states have laws that criminalize activities by HIV-positive people that are not criminalized when the rest of the population engages in them. Many of these laws improperly single out HIV over other…
African governments spend millions of dollars every year training physicians who will leave their home countries to live and work in wealthier nations. The result is that for countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sierra Leone,…
Eight in ten Americans think that prescription drug prices are unreasonable, according to a March 2018 Kaiser poll. That same poll found that more Americans considered passing legislation to lower drug pricing to be a…
By 2015, major news outlets were reporting on what the CDC was calling “one of the worst documented outbreaks of HIV among IV users in the past two decades.” Between 2011 and 2015 over 200…
The slogan “healthcare for all” typically stands as a proxy claim for “health insurance for all.” Given the Trump Administration’s recurrent attempts to decrease the effectiveness of President Obama’s comprehensive health insurance regulation reform law,…
