Campus Step Back: Day 5 challenge

Day 5
Preventable Global Diseases: AIDS

Think you know a lot about AIDS? Think again as Emily Oster, an economist reveals a different way of evaluating the AIDS crisis.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/emily_oster_flips_our_thinking_on_aids_in_africa.html

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