What HIV Epidemic?? Hans Rosling’s back
by Benjamin on August 30, 2009
In June, Hans Rosling (raved about earlier) gave a talk at the US State department explaining that the mindset about developing and developed countries is wrong, and the idea of an African HIV epidemic is wrong… He has a dataset, and if our mindset does not coincide with the dataset, then one of them must be wrong… The talk encompasses historical comparrisons of the US and China, an overview of world incomes and a discussion of the HIV ‘epidemic’ in Africa… Which according to Rosling is not an epidemic, but rather is a
Special situation probably of concurrent secxual partnerships among part of the heterosexual population in some countries or some parts of countries, in South East Africa. Don’t make it Africa, don’t make it a race issue. Make it a local issue.
Below is the State Department talk, but a documentary entitled “Rosling’s World” just aired on Swedish Television (in Swedish with English Subtitles), which will be free to watch until 15 September. I’m off to watch it now.
All in all, this is well worth watching, and I am sure it will provoke some responses.
Tags: Africa, AIDS, Development, hans rosling, HIV, infant mortality, Life Expectancy, MDG, US State Department
