The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing
The participants overwhelmingly supported changing the human genome if this offers promise of a better life.
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Read more: Being an Adult in the Face of Omicron Being an Adult in the Face of Omicron
It’s up to each of us to demand accountability and transparency, and to stay informed rather than assume others will act in our best interests.
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Read more: How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis
To save lives and improve individual and community outcomes, supervised injection sites should be part of the response to the opioid epidemic.
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Read more: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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Read more: One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV
By Daniel Aaron In October, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conference of world-leading experts in HIV/AIDS to discuss one of the biggest public health successes in history: PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR was launched in 2003 in response to a burgeoning global epidemic of HIV. The program offered $2 billion annually,…
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Read more: Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing
By Mark Satta 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 people in southern Indiana’s Scott County acquired HIV. The primary source of the spread was the sharing…
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Read more: A Lack of Pep for PrEP A Lack of Pep for PrEP
By Emily Largent The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently conducted a survey of gay and bisexual men in the U.S. focusing on attitudes, knowledge, and experiences with HIV/AIDS. The survey results, released Thursday, can be found here. I was most interested in the finding that only a quarter of those surveyed know about PrEP (pre-exposure…