The article, “Bill Frist: The Case for Keeping America’s AIDS Relief Plan,” was featured in The New York Times, a center-left publication, on 2/9/2017. The author is Bill Frist. Frist is a doctor who has experiences working with the Pepfar program in Africa. Frist also served as a Republican member of Congress. Overall, the article provides accurate information and the assertions are based on facts. Background information on the subject is provided by the author and he remains objective throughout. The author is writing this piece in support of the Pepfar program. However, any bias or slant in the writing is hard to detect. The solution proposed by the author is to fully fund the Pepfar program. Frist provides opposing views and discusses the pros and cons of each. One concern in the first paragraph on the first page is that the author claims that many health professionals are concerned about President Trump …show more content…
The author is arguing that President Trump should maintain the funding for this program while using the President and Vice-President themselves as appeals to authority. Frist quotes both Donald Trump and Mike Pence who in the past have acknowledged their support for this program. The article ends with a sense of hope, “President Trump could make the world’s next generation AIDS-free.” (Frist, 2017) The article provides accurate information and the assertions are based on facts. Background information on the subject is provided by the author who remains objective throughout the piece. The author is writing this piece in support of the Pepfar program. While arguing for his side he mentions the the opposing side, the pros and cons of each while remaining neutral. Any bias or slant in the writing is hard to detect. This article brings up may good points about how the United States could gain a large amount of soft power with minimal spending in parts of the developing
...wise go unnoticed. The PEPFAR program, started by President Bush, should be a model to fight other great diseases of the world. I was amazed to hear that due to the PEPFAR program and ARVs, that one possible way to transmit HIV (pregnant mother to child) is on its way to becoming completely eradicated. I believe that focus cannot only be on one continent at this point in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. There must be some way to increase funding and research so that ARVs and the Truvada drug may reach parts of Asia and the Americas, as it has in countries in Africa and the United States. Dr. Carl June is an extraordinary man. To make a legitimate connection between cancer and HIV is brilliant, in my opinion. I found it quite odd that Timothy Brown faced more criticism and disbelief from others when news broke out that he was cured of both his cancer and HIV.
...y, it is a disease where friends have to stand by and watch their friends die. The death toll of AIDS could have been reduced, many people believe, if it had been handle correctly. Although, when one thinks about it from Mayor Koch’s seat there was only so much he could have done. Koch never wrote or said anything that was malicious toward the AIDS community. Like many, it seemed he wanted to help but did not know exactly how to do it properly. Every move someone made when it came to AIDS was brutally scrutinized by both sides of the t so many politicians didn’t know what they could possibly do. The nature of this disease and the political ramifications drive home the overarching idea that the sexual is political because without the sexual nature of this plague it would not have been as difficult to deal with politically and millions of lives could have been saved.
During the study of various reforms that were proposed and denied, both the GOP and Democrats attempted to find a balance that would guarantee the success of their proposals. Years of research, growing ideologies, political views and disregard for the country's constitution sparked an array of alternatives to solve the country's healthcare spending. The expenditure of US healthcare dollars was mostly due to hospital reimbursements, which constitute to 30% (Longest & Darr, 2008). During the research for alternatives, the gr...
Randy Shilts set out to make monumental changes in the world’s perspective of AIDS. He planned to enlighten, motivate, and educate the population on this tragic disease that has already claimed so many lives. He believed that virtually all the misconceptions about AIDS would be corrected and the public would insist that more be done to stop the epidemic. "I had hoped to effect some fundamental changes. I really believed I could alter the performance of the institutions that had allowed AIDS to sweep through America unchecked" (220). Shilts’s immense expectations positioned him for his inevitable sense of failure. He did not accomplished all that he had planned. AIDS was still spreading and people were still dying. "The bitter irony is, my role as an AIDS celebrity just gives me a more elevated promontory from which to watch the world make the same mistakes in the handling of the AIDS epidemic that I hoped my work would help to change"(220).
“Treatment activists have succeeded in establishing their scientific credibility and their cultural competence in biomedicine” (page 337). This factor led to their success in influencing both the scientists and pharmaceutical industry on AIDS treatments, drug regulations, and the ways in which clinical trials are carried out
Ryan White’s effort and those who respond to the needs of the epidemic have caused both houses of Congress in 1990 to pass a comprehensive HIV/AIDS Resource Emergency (Care) Act to provide health care to those who have no insurance to get proper care. The program is the largest federal program in the United States (Rowan, 2013). The federal funding of the Ryan White is used mainly for medical care. The funds are primarily for individuals to receive health care coverage and financial resources. The prog...
The government played a major part in the AIDS situation. The government’s blood banks did not wish to check blood with a test developed by the CDC because it was not “cost-efficient.” The government also neglected the CDC of large sums of money needed in the pursuit of a cure or vaccine in the disease and thought more of dollar signs that the lives of people.
...ment for the sick. This received criticism but was nevertheless renewed and became a helpful resource for the sick. Even through all of the new programs that worked to stop the spread of AIDS and inform community and the sick, AIDS hit its 100,000 person dead in 1991. AIDS still surged up to the #1 leading death cause of men ages 25-44 in 1992 and then the #1 death cause of every all Americans ages 25-44 in 1995. The AIDS response also had conservative backlash because of the fact that sex and sexuality were more talked about, especially from Senator Jesse Helms (mostly blocking funding and stopping high school education), but criticism did not slow its efforts. The real AIDS solution was the discovery of new drugs in 1996. While the cost of these drugs was very expensive and out of reach for some, it led to the decline in AIDS death by 40% in 1997 compared to 1996.
"Demanding that life near AIDS is an inextricably other reality denies our ability to recreate a sustaining culture and social structures, even as we are daily required to devote such time to the details of the AIDS crisis." -Cindy Patton
The AIDS epidemic has reached disastrous proportions on the continent of Africa. Over the past two decades, two thirds of the more than 16 million people in the world infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, live in sub-Saharan Africa. It is now home to the largest number of people infected, with 70 percent of the world’s HIV infected population. The problem of this ongoing human tragedy is that Africa is also the least equipped region in the world to cope with all the challenges posed by the HIV virus. In order understand the social and economic consequences of the disease, it is important to study the relationship between poverty, the global response, and the effectiveness of AIDS prevention, both government and grass roots.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (2012). Refocusing national attention on the hiv crisis in the united states. Retrieved from website: http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/2012/AAAFactSheet-0712-508c.pdf
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. “Hard and Soft Power in American Foreign Policy.” In Paradox of American Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 4-17. Print.
Among the many topics that were hotly debated during the course of the most recent presidential election cycle was whether the government should stop providing government assistance to Planned Parenthood. The primary reasoning Republicans and pro-life organizations continue their attempt to defund Planned Parenthood is the belief that doing so is the right thing to do to stop abortions. Not only will defunding Planned Parenthood not stop abortions, it will reduce many people’s (men, women and young people) access to basic health care services where potentially no option, other than Planned Parenthood, is available. As such, defunding Planned Parenthood is detrimental to public health and wrong.
On August 19, 1992 in Houston, Texas, Mary Fisher, the HIV-positive daughter of prominent Republican fundraiser Max Fisher, gives her keynote speech “A Whisper of Aids” to the Republican National Convention (1). Fisher’s purpose is “to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV/AIDS” epidemic (1). Fisher succeeds in her overall persuasiveness by effectively using ethos, logos, and pathos throughout her address to the conservative Republican Party to advocate for awareness, education, and the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Today we will explore the speech given by Mary Fisher at the 1992 Republican National Convention entitled “A Whisper of AIDS”. The main purpose of Mary Fishers Speech “A Whisper of AIDS" was to promote awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic throughout the United States. Moreover, Fisher wanted it clear that no one, regardless of race, sex, age or any discriminatory factor, is safe from Human Immunodeficiency Virus because the virus only cares that one is a human being suitable of infection. However, the central idea of Fisher’s address was to establish awareness that those living with the affliction of HIV/AIDS are still people and deserve the compassion we’d give anyone else.