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For example, Mann noted that in the AIDS pandemic, “discrimination (and other human rights issues) were found not only to be tragic results of the pandemic but to be root societal causes of vulnerability to HIV” (Mann 1996, 925). While violations of human rights correlate with poor public health—such that those whose human rights are compromised generally have poor health—efforts to promote public health that also respect human rights have been Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights 33 shown in many cases to be more effective than policies that egregiously compromise human rights.
Public health practitioners may educate them about the risks of sex and drug use. , condoms and sterile injection equipment). Yet, if women are culturally and economically dependent on, or physically and emotionally abused by, their husbands, they remain powerless to reduce their risk of HIV. (Gostin 2001, 126) One reason for the futility of efforts to protect health that deal only with proximal causes is that health, as it turns out, is a more complex good than any of us had reason to believe.
While I would prefer a possible disease or accident to be prevented rather than wait for the necessity for cure, if I am already suffering I benefit as much from cure of this cause of suffering as I would by prevention of other comparable future suffering. There is nothing to choose between curing my present suffering and preventing the comparable future suffering of someone else. If we now consider the case in which the future people do already exist but are different, we can see that there are now good reasons in principle to discount the future although some reasons connected with probability of outcome remain.
