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This post was published on 19/07/10 in Pisani's picks, Videos, War on drugs.

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  1. Pingback by peripheries » Blog Archive » Buying Behaviour Change: A New HIV Prevention Technology?, 19/07/10, 07:48:

    […] to support condoms instead of promoting potato and lemon juice? This would definitively help with the problem of politician ignoring scientific evidences in favour of popular […]

  2. Comment by elizabeth, 02/08/10, 10:14:

    Comment via Facebook crosspost from Jeff O’Malley:

    “Hey Elizabeth… Great post. As important as it is to understand and use the evidence base, understanding the political base is even more important. Most of what has worked in AIDS started with no evidence at all (although in the best of cases, we gathered evidence over time and corrected course as needed). But I am afraid that our growing consensus within the AIDS world is increasingly at odds with the broader universe. Whoever decided that having an international AIDS conference with protesting MSM, drug users and sex workers was a good idea in Washington 2012 in the midst of a US Presidential campaign pitting Obama tacking to the right to fight off Palin?”

  3. Comment by Tim France, 08/08/10, 04:37:

    Thanks for this post E, and for your comment Jeff. You both reassured me. I have not been involved in the HIV policy advocacy ‘world’ for a few years now, so felt strange watching the IAC with an overwhelming feeling that it was all sooooooo out of touch with most current tides – political, financial, aid architecture changes, other shifts in global health, among others. I didn’t want to be critical, and thought it was because I was out of touch with the IAC at first. But watching some of the sessions and coverage from afar, the whole thing felt more disconnected and like preaching to the choir than ever (and comparing that with what already felt like ten years ago, that’s saying something!).
    Hopefully it won’t make it to DC in 2012 like this, what’s the point? And even though the IAS might like to think they will do the makeover, it will more likely be those with much bigger fish to fry (US administration?) who will actually make sure it looks very different by then.

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