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Marta Bornstein
Del Mar, WI
I am a senior BA student studying public health (health and society.) I have particular interests in Sub Saharan Africa, Central America, HIV, TB, maternal/child health, and microcredit programs. I have studied public health in both South Africa [urban and rural] and Nicaragua. I plan to attend graduate school for global health and development next year.
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Marta commented on the article |This is a really good post. As a student, I didn't fully realize the tension between AIDS activists and other global health professionals, but it makes sense given the money at stake. Of course people want money for the programs that they are invested in, and for good reasons! However, you are SO right when you say that people do not live their lives in programmatic categories... and to me that means we need more comprehensive approaches and we need to be willing to see categories slide away, because people are certainly vulnerable to many overlapping ailments.
Again, thanks for the excellent post!
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Marta commented on the article |This brings up a really interesting point about how global health and new technologies, and really globalization as a whole, have impacted health--for better and for worse. Previously, a woman in Tajikistan may have her own remedy for the sore throat of her child (which may or may not work better than western medicine, but that's not the point.) It is due to the introduction of bio/western medicine that she would turn to an antibiotic to make her child better, which we know is not necessarily appropriate for the condition at hand. The question then becomes, where to we drawl the lines between cultural sensitivity, progress, and medical necessities? It is interesting that more educated people are going back to a more traditional medical paradigm by appreciating the body's ability to heal itself, as it very well may in the case of a sore throat, whereas those we are trying to "educate" hold the beliefs that many American's did when antibiotics first became available--that they are a cure all and that without them we will never heal. This blog has really made me think today! Thank you. -Marta
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Marta commented on the article |Yes, that does make a lot of sense. I really appreciate your posts on graduate school and gaining experience in global health as well. Thanks again!
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