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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 _______.

Solution

  1. decades
  2. training
  3. brown
  4. ability
  5. access
  6. horizon
  7. women
  8. massive
  9. political

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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