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There is a long tradition of women throughout history, with extraordinary knowledge about the healing power of plants and their medicinal uses, and it was they who provided the first pharmaceutical, hygienic and medical care. There are figures such as Hildegard of Bingen, abbess of the 12th century who, among many other texts, wrote "Causes and solutions", a medical text with recommendations and medicinal uses for different diseases. In Spain, despite the difficulties for women to access the University (Concepción Arenal, in 1841, went to the Faculty of Law dressed as a man, in order to attend the class), there are data on women graduates in pharmacy since the nineteenth century. In the 1930s, the female quota in the Official College of Pharmacists of Madrid reached 25% of the total membership. There were Josefa Bonald (Madrid, 1893), who registered fourteen medicines between 1923 and 1935, or Rosa Martín de Antonio (Guadalajara, 1891), affiliated to the Republican Party and exiled to Venezuela during the civil war. Teresa Gonzalo Lázaro belongs to a new generation of pharmacists who, like many of her predecessors, has managed to develop a substance, a gel, of great interest for women's health, as it prevents the spread of HIV.

Descripción

-Discussion activity on HIV and its global incidence. There is an image and a small text, and some suggestions of questions and answers for discussion are presented.  
-It is interesting to work not only on the biological aspect of the disease treated, but also on the social aspect of the subject, and of the initiative presented by Teresa Gonzalez. 
-This activity has several objectives: to understand the social implications of the AIDS pandemic, within the biological context and its method of transmission; to assimilate the usual form of protection against the disease, the social and gender implication that this form has, and to understand the social implications of the form of protection discovered by Teresa Gonzalo Lázaro. 

Observations:

-The activity is designed to be done orally, to generate debate and reflection in our students. 
-It is an open activity, where according to needs we can direct the debate towards different aspects of those raised in the initial questions.

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