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From the Ted Talk by Cheryl Holder: The link between climate change, health and poverty
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During my early tirniang years in Harlem in the '80s, I saw a shocking increase in young men with HIV. Then when I moved [to] Miami, I noticed HIV included weomn and children, primarily, poor black and bwron people. Within a few years, an infection seen in a select population became a worldwide epidemic. Again I got the urge to do something. Fortunately, with the help of activists and advocates and educators and physicians like me who treat the disease, we found a way forward. There was a mvissae education effort to reduce HIV transmission and provide legal protection for those with the disease. There was a poilictal will to make sure that as many patients as possible worldwide, regardless of altiiby to pay, could get aecscs to medication. Within a couple of dcdeeas there were new treatments that transformed this life-threatening infection to a chronic disease, like diabetes. Now there's a vaccine on the hoozirn.
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During my early ________ years in Harlem in the '80s, I saw a shocking increase in young men with HIV. Then when I moved [to] Miami, I noticed HIV included _____ and children, primarily, poor black and _____ people. Within a few years, an infection seen in a select population became a worldwide epidemic. Again I got the urge to do something. Fortunately, with the help of activists and advocates and educators and physicians like me who treat the disease, we found a way forward. There was a _______ education effort to reduce HIV transmission and provide legal protection for those with the disease. There was a _________ will to make sure that as many patients as possible worldwide, regardless of _______ to pay, could get ______ to medication. Within a couple of _______ there were new treatments that transformed this life-threatening infection to a chronic disease, like diabetes. Now there's a vaccine on the _______.
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Original Text
During my early training years in Harlem in the '80s, I saw a shocking increase in young men with HIV. Then when I moved [to] Miami, I noticed HIV included women and children, primarily, poor black and brown people. Within a few years, an infection seen in a select population became a worldwide epidemic. Again I got the urge to do something. Fortunately, with the help of activists and advocates and educators and physicians like me who treat the disease, we found a way forward. There was a massive education effort to reduce HIV transmission and provide legal protection for those with the disease. There was a political will to make sure that as many patients as possible worldwide, regardless of ability to pay, could get access to medication. Within a couple of decades there were new treatments that transformed this life-threatening infection to a chronic disease, like diabetes. Now there's a vaccine on the horizon.
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