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Re:900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city o... by DoreenMichele on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:39AM (#21374757)
In the third world, when IVs are not available to treat dehydration, they spoon feed people water. It takes up to two hours, but it's safe and effective.

I did it once for one of my children. He was four and I didn't want him to be subjected to an IV.

Possible solutions include an oral or topical medication to replace the injected medication.

The poor in the US often also need actual affordable solutions that work. That seems to have improved some in recent years.

It won't exist if no one even bothers to try.

Re:900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city o... by oefrha on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:02AM (#21374859)
While I agree with your general sentiment, you do realize that “the poor in the US” and the poor in Pakistan are orders of magnitude apart, don’t you?
Re:900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city o... by DoreenMichele on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:23AM (#21374933)
Yes. So are the rich in the two countries and the US is very prone to designing a world that only works for the upper classes.

If money alone were all that mattered, you would think a country like the US wouldn't have thousands of homeless, etc.

Re:900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city o... by nexuist on Monday October 28, 2019 @12:06PM (#21378170)
Money is not what matters and hasn't mattered for a long time. What matters is access to capital, governed by statistics such as credit score, which itself is affected by your mental faculty and ability to hold down a job (i.e. follow instructions, assuming you have job opportunities which are abundant in any U.S. city compared to the third world).

>According to a 2015 assessment by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 564,708 people were homeless on a given night in the United States. At a minimum, 140,000 or 25 percent of these people were seriously mentally ill, and 250,000 or 45 percent had any mental illness.[1]

The homeless problem is a mental health problem. Sure, people can fall into hardship and get e.g. their houses foreclosed on and go bankrupt - but those same people generally are back on their feet a year or two later. Basically everyone who does not suffer from severe mental illness has the capability to raise enough capital on a monthly basis to put a roof over their heads. Now, they may have to work hard, and perhaps unreasonably hard in a sadly large amount of cases, but they can still do it and still do do it given that 99% of the country is not homeless.

[1] https://www.bbrfoundation.org/blog/homelessness-and-mental-i...

Re:900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city o... by DoreenMichele on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:20PM (#21379144)
No, homelessness is not (just) a mental health problem. Your own source indicates less than half of homeless people have a mental health issue and lists depression, anxiety and substance abuse as some of the mental health issues suffered by homeless individuals. All three of those can be caused or worsened by being homeless.

There are many factors that contribute to homelessness. Physical ailments can help lead to homelessness, but so can the high cost of housing:

Research by Zillow Group Inc. last year found that a 5 percent increase in rents in L.A. translates into about 2,000 more homeless people, among the highest correlations in the U.S. The median rent for a one-bedroom in the city was $2,371 in September, up 43 percent from 2010. Similarly, consultant McKinsey & Co. recently concluded that the runup in housing costs was 96 percent correlated with Seattle’s soaring homeless population. Even skeptics have come around to accepting the relationship. “I argued for a long time that the homelessness issue wasn’t due to rents,” says Joel Singer, chief executive officer of the California Association of Realtors. “I can’t argue that anymore.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homel...