Scenarios about 'global health'
The study and practice of improving health and achieving health equity for populations worldwide through prevention, treatment, and policy initiatives. Global health addresses transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions while emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration across geographical, cultural, and economic boundaries. In alternate history scenarios, changes to global health developments—such as different pandemic outcomes, medical discoveries, or international health organizations—can dramatically reshape demographic patterns, economic development, and geopolitical power structures.
What If AIDS Was Contained Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where HIV/AIDS was identified, understood, and effectively contained in the early 1980s, potentially saving millions of lives and reshaping global health priorities.
What If Smallpox Was Never Eradicated?
Exploring the alternate timeline where humanity's first and only successful disease eradication campaign failed, allowing smallpox to remain a deadly global threat into the 21st century.
What If The AIDS Epidemic Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where HIV never made the leap to humans or was contained before becoming a global pandemic, fundamentally altering public health, LGBTQ+ history, and social development across the globe.
What If The AIDS Epidemic Was Contained Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where HIV/AIDS was identified, understood, and addressed years before it became a global pandemic, potentially saving millions of lives and reshaping social attitudes toward public health and LGBTQ+ communities.