Bill Gates and the science of global health

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-12-24 16:09

Article here. Excerpt:

'Bill Gates makes big – $1.4-billion to date – donations to the Global Fund, the worldwide effort to combat and eradicate the triple scourge of HIV-AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Results have been remarkable. The Global Fund, operating in more than 140 countries, has 6.1 million people on antiretroviraltherapy for AIDS, has treated 11.2 million people for TB, and distributed 360 million insecticide-treated nets to protect families against malaria. But it’s about far more than money and numbers.
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"HIV is our toughest because we still have a lot of people who got HIV in the past who will progress to needing treatment. In the case of HIV a lot of the money goes to increase the number of people on treatment which avoids deaths. A fair bit of the money goes to HIV prevention, like scaling up circumcision and that will bring the numbers down. You know, we do have behavioural change … where we need to convince people not to do risky things, convince them to use condoms."'

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"You know, we do have behavioural change … where we need to convince people not to do risky things, convince them to use condoms."

And that is just it. Condoms, not cutting! You'd think someone as intelligent as Bill would understand that possessing less skin is not going to help prevent one from contracting AIDs, regardless of what any flawed study (which does not control for the recovery time of the circumcised subjects) has to say.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Wed, 2013-12-25 07:40