TED2009: Hans Rosling
The incredible statistician Hans Rosling is is on stage at TED2009.
Here's his TEDtalk from 2008.
He's talking about AIDS, and showing an amazing animated graph of the rise of AIDS around the world. Y axis is percentage of adults with HIV, X axis is dollars per person (per capita GDP?) So what factors correlates with HIV infection? High percentage areas have: low condom use, uncircumcised men, older men having sex with younger women, having more than one partner in the same month. Section of Southern Africa with 4% of world population has 50% of HIV-infected persons.
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