Division...

 

As a researcher, I realize the importance of  demographics & the need to examine a diverse  population for  any study.  However, the core of any study should be the inherent focus.   For this blog, the area is direct, HIV. 

IMO, for years now, too much of HIV research has been divided.  Again population diversity is vastly important, but not at the expense of the totality of the study.  While there is still some research at the wholeness of  the issue of HIV/AIDS.  Much of it, if not most, has been divided.  It's now a matter  of ethnicity, nationality, economics, sex, gender, etc...  Again, these are factors in any study.  But a study over HIV in poor, Black, transgender  women living in mid continent Africa shouldn't prevail over other studies.  Yet, often I see articles that specifically divided overwhelming other research.  

HIV research isn't  the only thing we've fractured.  Almost every area  of research is now like this.  News reports  are filled such pieces.  We've left the macro for  an almost  entirely micro viewpoint.   Both are necessary.

My blog is about HIV.  Yes, I am more interested in articles that  affect rural areas like where I live.  But, I don't expect every article to  be like that.  It's nice  to  see a non-metro  perspective every once & a while.  But of all these divisions, I'd say being poor & rural probably  trumps most of  them  when it  comes to HIV.  So, write about your specifics, but don't lose sight of the big picture.

Cya...