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• Epidemics (Movements, health, World)

  Lessons from Aids, ethics and practice of social solidarity: SILENCE=DEATH, ACTION = LIFE: New Relevance in COVID Pandemic Times

  6 April 2021, by KINSMAN Gary

  It has taken me some time to realize how relevant the AIDS activist slogan and perspective SILENCE=DEATH, ACTION =LIFE is to the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have reflected in previous writings on the differences and similarities between the AIDS crisis (which continues) and the (…)

• Epidemics (Movements, health, World)

  The International Fight against Covid and the the ZeroCovid campaign

  11 February 2021, by LEPLAT Fred

  Fred Leplat explores the international response to the pandemic.

  At the end of January Britain passed the gruesome official milestone of over 100,000 deaths, and possibly 120,000 . Most governments across Europe have been following a similar strategy to that in Britain. Initially hoping for the best, that “herd (...)

• Epidemics (Movements, health, World)

  Some notes on learning from AIDS activism for our responses to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

  18 March 2020, by KINSMAN Gary

  While living though the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis I am struck by the connections between the AIDS crisis (which is also not over) and this health crisis. These connections are not often being made or remembered in the commentaries and analysis I have seen. At the same time there are (…)