Howie and Harlan are joined by Ingrid Katz, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, to discuss why HIV continues to spread despite the existence of cheap and effective treatment, what AIDS activism can teach us about tackling chronic diseases like hypertension, and what outbreaks like Ebola reveal about the consequences of fragile health systems. Harlan reports on a breach of UK Biobank data and what it means for the future of open science; Howie highlights two recent papers illustrating the importance of vitamin C and the danger of treating it as a cure-all.

Show notes:

The UK Biobank Data Breach

UK Biobank

NIH: All of Us Research Program

"UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms"

"UK Biobank: Confidential patient health details still online three months after leaks, BMJ finds"

Ingrid Katz

HIV

PEPFAR

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Differentiated Service Delivery

Hypertension

"Prevalence, Awareness, and Treatment of Hypertension in 37 African Countries: Trends From 2003 to 2022"

Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)

Treatment Action Campaign

"Health & Veritas Episode 224: Nicholas Christakis: The Science of Human Connection"

CDC: Ebola Outbreak: Current Situation"

South African president Thabo Mbeki

"More than Two Decades Since the Abuja Declaration: A Way Forward for Ending AIDS as a Public Health Threat by 2030"

Vitamin C

Linus Pauling

"High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C and Mortality and Organ Dysfunction in Severe Burn Injury: The VICTORY Randomized Clinical Trial"

"High-Dose Vitamin C in Burns: Time to Stop"

"A 7-Year-Old Girl with Limping and Leg Pain"

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