1993_4

Archive ID: 1993_4

Jamaican physician Dorothy Blake explains how other sexually transmitted diseases can make HIV easier to catch. She also talks about three main aspects of HIV prevention, which for instance includes a safe sex approach rather than a behavior modification approach. She describes AIDS as a "people disease" which can only be tackled by the multidimensional work of people.

Background material

"Dr Dorothy Blake was the Deputy Director of Global Programme on AIDS at WHO, when we did this interview. She is a Jamaican phycisian, focusing a lot on womens issues and also on the HIV/AIDS response in the developing world." - Staffan Hildebrand