Posted on 07/30/2020 8:45:26 AM PDT by fwdude
MEXICO CITY, July 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly nine out of 10 Americans believe there is still stigma around HIV, while 59% think it is important to be careful around people who are HIV positive, a study published on Monday found.
Half the 2,506 American adults questioned in the survey, for media advocacy group GLAAD and pharmaceutical company Gilead, felt knowledgeable about HIV, while six out of 10 believed it could be treated.
“People living with HIV today are leading long, healthy lives ... but the stigma that they face has persisted for far too long and leads to harmful discrimination,” said GLAAD president and chief executive Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement.
“HIV issues have flown under the radar, but with advances in treatment and prevention, we urgently need to educate the public on the facts about HIV today.”
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There a stigma with every venereal disease.
If we could just give them all to everyone, there’d be no “stigma.”
Until then, expect stigma, freaks.
HIV pimps are sad that they are out of the limelight. Their Govt funding is threatened by the spread of Covid. Gotta do something!
“Hey! Look at us! Pleeeeease!!”
Then governors should ban the activity that transmits the virus in group greater than 10 and require proper precautions be taken when the activity cannot be performed without social distancing
For years, they have wanted to change perceptions of HIV and AIDS as being identified with homosexuals.
Now there is a disease where a draconian quarantine was called for. But instead it became the first disease with civil rights.
I know..I know...we’re racist white people, we hate homosexuals and beat them up all the time, and we’re a skeered of HIV and we attack muzzies.....
Its the only disease I can think of which is 100% directly caused by one’s behavior.
The biggest politically correct insanity is the movement afoot to let HIV folks donate to the blood bank. Of course, the liberal hypocrites, advocating it would never infect their own systems with this tainted blood.
Mexico City is doing a study about Amerigoland regarding attitudes about HIV?
Some people still aren’t into AIDS Pride and the refusal by those with AIDS to NOT inform their potential sex partners beforehand? That some people are unhappy with bugchasing parties where people TRY to get AIDS?
Well, the lefties tried to poison the blood supply to make it everybody’s problem, but so far their effort has failed.
Imagine if we’d treated this virus in the early 80s with the same gusto the Wuhan flu has received.
Except that it's a perception based in fact.
>>People living with HIV today are leading long, healthy lives
Define HEALTHY versus PRODUCTIVE
Uh, considering how the vast majority of folks get it, and what it involves after getting it, one questions “stigma”?
And look at the woke reaction to the WuFu in contrast.
We should wear masks, but “they” don’t give a shi...er...give an Obama about condoms.
Reuters - always competing to be the bottom of the bottom.
Shove it, *sshats.
Close the bathhouses, tell people to abstain for health reasons. 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years. What’s the difference?
#SaveGrandma
Hey — talk about stigma!! — I’m not sick at all but no one wants to deal with me unless I’m wearing a frickin’ mask!!
I feel oppressed.
Some got it via transfusion.
Isaac Asimov didn’t go public.
What else can you say that was not already being said some 30 years ago? The main difference is the term
“Universal Precautions”. That means presuming that anyone you meet has some kind of contagion, and you taking the precautions of washing your hands or properly disposing soiled items. Contagions include TB, hepatitis and what we used to call VD aka Gonorrhea and Syphilis. They haven’t gone away.
Oft times, that basic hygiene method is all one needs. But as I stated, this was talked about way back in the Reagan Administration too. People will continue to worry about it. Some of that worry is a good thing, a sign of awareness.
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