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HIV/AIDS
Awareness is Power
As the global population increases, so does the potential for disease.
What's the deal with this blog?
This blog is designed specifically for the spring term theme (of, you guessed it) "Global Problems, Local Solutions" for Ms. Saxe's general biology classes at New Hampton School. This year we are going to focus on turning the phrase "human impact on the environment" from a negative phrase to a positive phrase. Before we do that, we need to learn the basics about ecology and sustainability.
This blog is designed to keep students, tutors and parents informed as to what is going on in class. Students should check this daily for announcements, resources, homework and links to class projects. Homework may be posted here outside of class. But, to be fair, homework that is due the next day will only be posted before 5pm the day before it is due.
If you'd like to see what we did in the fall or winter term check out the blog Biology @ New Hampton
This blog is designed to keep students, tutors and parents informed as to what is going on in class. Students should check this daily for announcements, resources, homework and links to class projects. Homework may be posted here outside of class. But, to be fair, homework that is due the next day will only be posted before 5pm the day before it is due.
If you'd like to see what we did in the fall or winter term check out the blog Biology @ New Hampton
Information on Climate Change
Research Tools
Samples of Student Projects from 2007
Links to posts with student discussions from 2007
- Responses to "What are the top 5 global problems?"
- Local solutions for global warming
- What E Block learned from State of Denial
- What C Block learned from State of Denial
- What B Block learned from State of Denial
- What A Block learned from State of Denial
- Would you recommend State of Denial
- Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut (part 1)
- Reflections on Jurt Vonnegut (Part 2)
Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases (from 2007)
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- Groups & Topics for the final project
- Bottle Biology A & E blocks
- More Infectious Disease Presentations & Bottle Bio...
- Infectious Disease Presentations
- Researching in the ARC
- Infectious Saturday
- Infectious Disease Presentations
- HIV/AIDS wrap up quiz*
- Structure & Replication of HIV
- Progression and replication of HIV
- Kurt Vonnegut & You
- Thoughts from Kurt Vonnegut
- Basic Biology of HIV & Disease Progression
- Movie Wrap Up (Wednesday & Thursday)
- Would you recommend your friends and family see St...
- A Block: 5 things I learned from watching State of...
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- State of Denial
- Wrap up on Global Warming
- Jess's Newspaper Article on Global Warming & Lakes
- Debates: US, China, Industry & Environmentalists
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8 comments:
5 things i learned from the movie:
-TAC the Treatment Action Comittee that are activists helping awareness in South Africa and trying to get affordable drugs for HIV/AIDS.
-The TAC brought generic drugs into South Africa and denied patent laws that made this illegal. They brought a generic version of Diflucan.
- In 2000 Pfizer agreed to donate Diflucan free for 2 years to South Africa.
- You can get such things as an Oportunistic Disease(Pathogen) such as a fungal infection in the mouth/throat where because you have HIV/AIDS your immune system is so weak that your body cannot fight this.
-President Mbeki is unwilling to support HIV/AIDS treatments. He believes the durgs are too toxic to give to the people and is hurting them more than helping them. He also signed a monopoly that inflated the price of the drugs 15 times as much as it would cost. He doesnt believe that HIV causes AIDS... his views contradict Science... which he also does not believe in.
-Rachel Rollins
1. In South Africa drugs for AIDS are very hard to get because they are so expensive.
2.President Mbeki does not believe that HIV causes AIDS, alot of scientists back.
3.President Mbeki signed an agreement that does not allow genetic drugs of Pfizer to be sold.
4.As a result of the agreement Pfizer has a monopoly and charges way to much for their drugs so they can make a bigger profit.
5.If South Africa is not help with there AIDS problem then more and more people will die.
I would recommend this movie to anyone because it is very informative. It gives you the true story about what is going on in Africa.
Nick Caruso
1. medicine for HIV is very expensive and har to get in South Africa, even every day 2,000 people get HIV.
2.the president of South Afria does not believe that HIV cause AIDS.
3.About 4.2 million of the South Africans have AIDS.
4.Pfizer drug company is dominating South Africa just for making money, becasue they require lots of money for poor people.
5.finally Pfizer donate the HIV Medicine for 2year but we do not know how much they donated.
jihoon Shim
1. TAC-treatment action comittee was created by Zackie Achmat. this comittee would sneak generic versions of medicine. (this was against the law)
2. The president of South Africa, Thado Mbeki, does not beleive that HIV causes AIDS.
3. Pfizer is a drug company that has a monopaly in South Africa. Pfizer makes the drug Diflucan, this drug costs 2500 per refill.
4. 4.2 million people in south africa have aids
5. you can get oprotunistic disease, which if you have AIDS, you can die from.
Kali B
1. A virus cannot cause a syndrom- Mbeki
2. Pfizer has a monopoly over AIDS medication, Diflucan.
3. There are 2,000 more cases of AIDS each day.
4. You don't technically die from AIDS, you could easily die from the common cold.
5. TAC smuggled "illegal" drugs into South Africa to help the poor obtain medication.
1. I learned that Pfizer holds a monopoly over south Africa, and keeps the price of Diflucan outrageously high.
2. I learned that President Mbeki did not believe the HIV, a virus could cause AIDS, a syndrome.
3. I learned that Pfizer gave South Africa 2 years of free Diflucan, to help some of the 4.2 million people with HIV/AIDS.
4. I learned that you do not actually die of AIDS but by an opportunistic disease that takes over when your immune system is weak.
5. I learned that TAC smuggled generic drugs into South Africa to help benefit some of the people with AIDS.
Alex T.
1. I learned that Pfizer has a monopoly in drugs in S. Africa and they are using it to take advantage by raising drug prices to an almost unaffordable level.
2. Zolo support group is just a small group of people who are all HIV/AIDS positive and just talk about life with the virus/disease.
3. "Opportunistic Viruses" are viruses that enter the body but are usually taken care of by the body's immune system. However, the viruses are fatal when the body's immune system is deteriorated.
4. TAC smuggled generic versions of Pfizer's Diflucan drug to poor people with HIV who can't afford the brand name.
5. Mbeki doesn't believe that HIV causes AIDS and is one of the only world leaders who is taking the dissidence view of the issue.
-Stephen Gallo
1. Treatment Action Campaign(TAC) has been fighting against the law of monopoly in South Africa
2. President Mbeki agreed to pass a law which supports a monopoly of Pifzer drug company.
3. 2000 new HIV positive patients come out a day in South Africa
4. President Mbeki asserted that virus does not cause a syndrome.
5. In one doctor's hospital, there was no HIV patient before 1992.
Kevin Moon
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