On Feb 13, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Global AIDS drug prices have much more to do with struggles over
> patent than with ACT UP and other US AIDS activist orgs, just as big
> race and class gaps in infection rates, mortality rates, etc. in the
> USA have much more to do with economic inequality, lack of
> single-payer health care, the "war on crimes" (which has led to
> "[r]oughly one-fifth of black adult males in the United States" having
> served time ["New Perspectives on the Social and Economic Contexts of
> HIV/AIDS Infection," Focus Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall-Winter 2006,
> <http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc243f.pdf>]), and
> so on than with ACT UP and other US AIDS activist orgs.
Worse, ACT-UP hasn't done a thing about global warming, not to mention baldness.
Doug