- Banks are using a cookie-cutter approach to MBL, CUNA.org, May 3, 2017.
2. cookie-cutter approach:
What do Sec. Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Elton John, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, Senator Lindsey Graham, and 2008 Nobel Laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi have in common?
They are all champions for the end of AIDS. Together with other prominent voices, each participated this week in the 19th International AIDS Society Conference. Imagine a global pep rally of scientists, health ministers, political leaders, and activists. Mix in a dissertation defense, add a Morse Code of Statistic Acronym. Now top it off with thousands of rainbow condoms, as colorful as the nations and spirited opinions there.
This year’s conference celebrated 30 years of progress and looked ahead to challenges and opportunity. Botswanan Sheila Tlou, regional Director of UNAIDS, summarized, “We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not an oncoming train.”
During her speech calling for an AIDS-free Generation, Sec. Clinton teased, “If you’re not getting excited about this, please raise your hand and I will send somebody to check your pulse.” If only health care delivery was that easy.
Setting financial resources and logistics aside, it’s still not just the pulse, but also the psychology. Medicine and mentality. Stigma and adherence to treatment regimes continue to pose formidable challenges. For progress, as leading scientist and AIDS Hero Tony Fauci said, the biological is inseparable from the behavioral. South Africa’s Yogan Pillay, Deputy Director General for Strategic Health Programs, similarly emphasized the importance of health ministries incorporating both a demand-side and a supply-side intervention.
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