Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills, Policy Development and Program Planning Skills, Community Partnership Skills Brian Tolleson Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills, Policy Development and Program Planning Skills, Community Partnership Skills Brian Tolleson

PART 1.2

In the early days of HIV/AIDS, AIDS was a mysterious disease. The cause of AIDS was unknown, and many blamed it on the most marginalized groups. But, without knowing that the disease was caused by a virus, it was easy to stigmatize, isolate and blame affected groups. The early approach towards understanding AIDS focused on who was getting infected, rather than the cause and effect of the disease. Epidemiologists saw that AIDS was affecting hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, homosexuals, and Haitians (the 4Hs of HIV) which biased the way people viewed the disease and the populations it first impacted. Infection did not seem to follow logic.

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Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills Brian Tolleson Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills Brian Tolleson

PART 2.2

While Guinea worm was widespread in Nigeria and Ghana, the leaders thought Guinea worm impacted only a small number of people and for this reason they were not motivated to do anything to solve the problem. But what government leaders thought were a few hundred cases turned out to be over 650,000 cases.

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