UPDATE: HIV Stigma Is on the Decline, GLAAD Reports. But Is That True?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 17:40:05 | Updated at 2024-09-30 23:31:38 5 days ago

UPDATE: HIV Stigma Is on the Decline, GLAAD Reports. But Is That True?
POZ ^ | September 23, 2024 | Trent Straube

Posted on 09/25/2024 10:00:36 AM PDT by fwdude

September 13, 2024: Is HIV stigma finally decreasing in the United States? More Americans believe so, found the 2024 State of HIV Stigma report. “For the first time in five years, [the report] found a statistically significant decline of HIV stigma in the U.S., with 85% of Americans saying they believe HIV stigma exists, down from 89% in 2020,” according to a press release from LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD, which spearheaded the annual report in partnership with pharma giant Gilead Sciences’ Gilead COMPASS Initiative.

Troublingly, though, is the finding that fewer people believe everyone should get tested for HIV (67% of respondents compared with 77% in 2020). The fifth annual report also found that Gen Z—roughly those between ages 27 and 11—is the least HIV-educated generation. Perhaps a solution to these challenges lies in another report finding. As the authors state: “Seeing more stories of people living withHIV in media is key to combating HIV stigma.”

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Anyone trying to "combat stigma" is simply and enemy of thinking people. Stigma is self-existent and has its own rational reason for being.

HIV/AIDS deserves all the stigma that it deserves. No one who holds that stigma needs to justify their opinion or needs to be "educated."

1 posted on 09/25/2024 10:00:36 AM PDT by fwdude

To: fwdude

Gus: How ‘bout a poke Woodrow?
Woodrow: We gotta get you to town pard.

2 posted on 09/25/2024 10:04:21 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)

To: fwdude

Same thing happened with Tuberculosis. That doesn’t change Tuberculosis.

3 posted on 09/25/2024 10:05:53 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)

To: fwdude

85%, down from 89%, is still considerable. Given that it’s an incurable venereal disease, perhaps a little caution is in order.

4 posted on 09/25/2024 10:08:28 AM PDT by Billthedrill

To: Billthedrill

Incurable, potentially deadly if not treated, and definitely life-shortening.

What’s to fear?

5 posted on 09/25/2024 10:11:12 AM PDT by fwdude

To: fwdude

why do fags always want to tell other people about their faggotry?

6 posted on 09/25/2024 10:15:20 AM PDT by imabadboy99

To: fwdude

People now hide their opinions and utter in public politically correct rants. However very few of those “tolerant, empathetic” people would knowingly invite someone with HIV into their home and sit their dinner table.

7 posted on 09/25/2024 10:16:56 AM PDT by allendale

To: fwdude

From the party that saw nothing wrong with two of its members boofooing in senate room 216, buck naked, then posting a video online.
Democrats and their STDs. They think with their gonads.

8 posted on 09/25/2024 10:17:14 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)

To: fwdude

with medication, one can become undetectable, but are they still contagious?

it is still deadly, right?

9 posted on 09/25/2024 10:18:40 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )

To: fwdude

10 posted on 09/25/2024 10:39:31 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.You will suffer from one: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. )

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