A better pill to swallow: the bid to end AIDS
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Many of the pieces are in place to bring the disease entirely under control—but our correspondent finds it will take more than advances in medication. Japan’s government has at last begun to regulate the country’s notorious pornography; we examine a sector emerging from the shadows (11:07). And how China uses UNESCO world-heritage status to rewrite the history of its periphery (18:38).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
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| 1:01.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm Oire Ocunby. |
| 1:06.2 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:07.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | Unsurprisingly, Japan's multi-million dollar porn industry is riddled with exploitation and abuse, |
| 1:22.6 | and politicians are finally stepping in to regulate what has long been a legal grey area. |
| 1:28.3 | And the UN's Cultural Heritage Agency, UNESCO, |
| 1:33.3 | gives its stamp of approval to sites and practices that it deems are of great value to humanity. |
| 1:39.3 | But China is using that process to stake some dubious claims |
| 1:43.3 | about once contested areas along its borders. |
| 1:47.0 | First up, though, |
| 1:58.0 | It's hard to believe how far the world has come in its fight against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. |
| 2:08.3 | A couple of decades ago, it was killing two million people a year, the majority of whom lived in developing countries. |
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