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November 2007, Vol 97, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1934-1936
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.121418

EDITORIAL

Good Politics, Bad Politics: The Experience of AIDS

Peter Piot, MD, PhD, Sarah Russell, MA and Heidi Larson, PhD

Peter Piot and Sarah Russell are with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland. Heidi Larson is with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Boston, Mass, and the Department of International Development, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sarah Russell, UNAIDS, 20 Avenue Appia, CH1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (e-mail: russells@unaids.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Historically, many of the improvements in public health have their roots in a synergistic combination of political leadership and science. The potency of this synergy between politics and science is illustrated by many of the public health advances made in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Improvements in European children’s health, for example, occurred when politicians responded to calls from their electorates to end child labor. Similarly, declines in tuberculosis started before treatment was even available, because of social activism that resulted in improved living conditions.1 Incidences of tobacco-related illnesses were finally reduced when doctors and the antismoking lobby prevailed . . . [Full Text]






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