HIV stigma is now more dangerous than the virus – my research shows how to address this

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-24 17:10:15 | Updated at 2024-12-25 05:58:12 12 hours ago

HIV stigma is now more dangerous than the virus – my research shows how to address this
The Conversation ^ | Dec 23, 2024 | Elena Vaughan

Posted on 12/24/2024 9:05:02 AM PST by fwdude

Speaking at the 16th International Aids Conference in 2006, the then UNAids executive director, Peter Piot, remarked: “Since the beginning of the epidemic, stigma, discrimination and gender inequality have been identified as major causes of personal suffering, and as major obstacles to effective responses to HIV.”

Now, in the fourth decade of the HIV crisis, this statement remains largely true. Despite the leaps and bounds that have been made in the treatment and prevention of HIV, stigma and discrimination continue to harm the lives of people living with HIV, and hinder efforts to stem the epidemic globally.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda

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The disease with its very own "civil rights" makes more false claims and demands.

Stigma is almost always self-justifying and is the absolute right of the person who exercises it. When someone says it needs to be "dealt with," they are talking overt Marxism.

1 posted on 12/24/2024 9:05:02 AM PST by fwdude

To: fwdude

The stigma of (insert here) is worse than than the (insert here).

Clown world.

To: fwdude

Nobody talks about AIDS.
Nobody cares about AIDS.

These people are trying to be victims. Attention whores.

To: ClearCase_guy

Indeed. The demand for “cares” far outstrips the supply.

4 posted on 12/24/2024 9:09:43 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)

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