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From the Ted Talk by Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV

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This is a picture of a mtanarel health clinic in Africa — moerhts coming, pregnant and with their babies. These women are here for care, but we know that just doing a test, just giving someone a drug, it's not enough. Meds don't equal medical care. Doctors and nurses, fkanrly, don't have the time or skills to tell people what to do in ways they uetrandsnd. I'm a doctor — I tell people things to do, and I expect them to flloow my guidance — because I'm a doctor; I went to Harvard — but the reality is, if I tell a patient, "You should have seafr sex. You should always use a condom," and yet, in her relationship, she's not empowered — what's going to happen? If I tell her to take her meiicedns every day and yet, no one in the huohloesd knows about her illness, so it's just not going to work. And so we need to do more, we need to do it differently, we need to do it in ways that are affordable and accessible and can be taken to scale, which means it can be done everywhere.

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This is a picture of a ________ health clinic in Africa — _______ coming, pregnant and with their babies. These women are here for care, but we know that just doing a test, just giving someone a drug, it's not enough. Meds don't equal medical care. Doctors and nurses, _______, don't have the time or skills to tell people what to do in ways they __________. I'm a doctor — I tell people things to do, and I expect them to ______ my guidance — because I'm a doctor; I went to Harvard — but the reality is, if I tell a patient, "You should have _____ sex. You should always use a condom," and yet, in her relationship, she's not empowered — what's going to happen? If I tell her to take her _________ every day and yet, no one in the _________ knows about her illness, so it's just not going to work. And so we need to do more, we need to do it differently, we need to do it in ways that are affordable and accessible and can be taken to scale, which means it can be done everywhere.

Solution

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  2. maternal
  3. household
  4. mothers
  5. frankly
  6. safer
  7. understand
  8. medicines

Original Text

This is a picture of a maternal health clinic in Africa — mothers coming, pregnant and with their babies. These women are here for care, but we know that just doing a test, just giving someone a drug, it's not enough. Meds don't equal medical care. Doctors and nurses, frankly, don't have the time or skills to tell people what to do in ways they understand. I'm a doctor — I tell people things to do, and I expect them to follow my guidance — because I'm a doctor; I went to Harvard — but the reality is, if I tell a patient, "You should have safer sex. You should always use a condom," and yet, in her relationship, she's not empowered — what's going to happen? If I tell her to take her medicines every day and yet, no one in the household knows about her illness, so it's just not going to work. And so we need to do more, we need to do it differently, we need to do it in ways that are affordable and accessible and can be taken to scale, which means it can be done everywhere.

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