Comments on: Putting A Plague In Perspective http://themoderatevoice.com/16813/putting-a-plague-in-perspective/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 10:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: pisani http://themoderatevoice.com/16813/putting-a-plague-in-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-151548 pisani Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:28:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/health/disease/16813/putting-a-plague-in-perspective/#comment-151548 Halperin is right, but by focusing on Africa he actually understates the distorting effect of donor-driven over funding of HIV programmes. In other continents (including Asia, where I have benefited from that overfunding for many years as an HIV epidemiologist) the sheer volume of money available removes any incentive to use it well, even within the field of HIV itself. Governments get money to do things that are fashionable and politically popular (such as life-skills training for schoolgirls and screening for pregnant women), so they don't have to bother with things that are uncomfortable but that might actually address their epidemics (such as clean needles for drug injectors or condoms and lube for guys who cruise the continent's booming gay scene).<br><br>For more iconoclasm about the 10 billion dollar AIDS-in-poor-countries industry, see <a href="http://www.wisdomofwhores.com">http://www.wisdomofwhores.com</a> Halperin is right, but by focusing on Africa he actually understates the distorting effect of donor-driven over funding of HIV programmes. In other continents (including Asia, where I have benefited from that overfunding for many years as an HIV epidemiologist) the sheer volume of money available removes any incentive to use it well, even within the field of HIV itself. Governments get money to do things that are fashionable and politically popular (such as life-skills training for schoolgirls and screening for pregnant women), so they don't have to bother with things that are uncomfortable but that might actually address their epidemics (such as clean needles for drug injectors or condoms and lube for guys who cruise the continent's booming gay scene).

For more iconoclasm about the 10 billion dollar AIDS-in-poor-countries industry, see http://www.wisdomofwhores.com

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