After Midterm Flashcards
Aim of Rockefeller foundation
to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world
eugenics
science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race and develop them to an utmost advantage
Francis Galton
father of eugenics
Herbert Spencer
survival of the fittest
J.S. Woodsworth
leader of social gospels and first leader of CCF
-“desirable vs undesirables” based on assimilability.
Tommy Douglas
-suggested people should be sterilized to help people improve
United Farmer’s Association proposed what 3 remedies:
- regulation of marriage
- segregation of mental defectives
- sterilization
Sexual Sterilization Act in Alberta
1928-1972
4 H’s of HIV/AIDS
- homosexuals
- heroin users
- Haitians
- hookers
Gaetan Dugas
- patient zero (O)
- how they discovered it was transmitted through blood
- brought HIV from Haiti to N.A.
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 1979-1985
- disease of gay men
- 2000 people infected through blood
- Queer Activism
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 1990-2000
- focus on finding cure
- HAART
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2001
National Aboriginal Council on HIV/AIDS established
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2003
Vancouver opens first supervised injection site
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2005
Health Canada approves a rapid HIV antibody test
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2007
Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2010
US allows people with HIV to enter the country
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2012
- new HIV and pregnancy guide
- Supreme Court of Canada rules that an HIV+ person has a legal duty to disclose to sex partner
HIV/AIDS in Canada: 2016
Health Canada approves oral Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis
first reported case of HIV/AIDS in SK
Trevis Smith, 1984
Ebola virus death rate
50-90%
Ebola first reported in…
1976
-Sudan & DRC