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Announcements. Already fourth week! Remember…four response papers (one page) and two mini essays (two pages) Response papers tie readings to lectures Mini essays tie course materials to life. Road Map.

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  1. Announcements • Already fourth week! • Remember…four response papers (one page) and two mini essays (two pages) • Response papers tie readings to lectures • Mini essays tie course materials to life

  2. Road Map

  3. Review: Evaluation – Does Economic Globalization Extend Opportunity or Increase Exploitation? Mixed story: By and large, basic indicators of material well-being (such as life expectancy) rise over recent decades, for people all over the world But gross inequalities remain, and a few even grow (such as shares of world income). Answers shift if we consider the well-being of nature instead of society.

  4. Application: Economic Globalization and AIDS (source: WHO) Background… • In 2006, more than 4 million became newly infected with HIV. • In 2006, almost 40 million living with HIV. • In 2006, AIDS killed almost 3 million. • Since AIDS first identified in 1981, more than 25 million died.

  5. Background -- AIDS in the OC (source: Orange County Health Care Agency)

  6. Background -- AIDS in the OC (source: Orange County Health Care Agency)

  7. What Does Economic Globalization Have to Do with the AIDS Crisis? • 1. Exposure in resource extraction • 2. Established in human population with rise of wage labor • 3. Spread internationally through increased ties • 4. Also spread through commodification of sex

  8. What Does Economic Globalization Have to Do with the AIDS Crisis? • 5. Increased vulnerability with economic dislocation • 6. Treatment inhibited by profit imperative

  9. 2006 AIDS map (source: WHO)

  10. 2005 % on ARV Therapy

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