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Colin Aitken: Today’s Greatest Humanitarian Crisis (PEPFAR) #14

Colin Aitken: Today’s Greatest Humanitarian Crisis (PEPFAR) #14

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Development economist Colin Aitken unpacks the freezing of PEPFAR, whether aid programmes are effective, balancing radical altruism and concern for others with mental health, and how to think about money.

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Highlights include:

00:00 Introduction 01:17 Colin’s Story 04:48 How retrovirals work 07:30 How people get HIV 9:27 How bad is untreated HIV? 11:05 How PEPFAR stopped 13:14 Critiques of Aid 16:14 Effectiveness 18:44 PEPFAR’s Future 20:48 How do we know it works? 26:47 How many millions may die? 33:05 Coping with Suffering 42:09 The Church 45:11 Personal Spending 53:58 Money 58:52 Effective Giving
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