Our guest Elizabeth Pisani dazzled audiences in her leather go-go boots at the TED “Ideas Worth Spreading” conference in February this year, where fabulous folks gather to share bold ideas on Technology, Entertainment, Design (get it, T.E.D.?) but on any idea that dramatically changes the way we think of the world around us.
Some highlights of the video include her stories on sex workers and heroin addicts in jail “please let there be some smack when the needle gets to me” and when she tosses out condoms to the audience of distinguished people.
From TED: Armed with bracing logic, wit and her “public-health nerd” glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations — from junkies in prison to sex workers on the street in Cambodia — demonstrates the sometimes counter-intuitive measures that could stall the spread of this devastating disease.
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