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HIV/AIDS stigma: this term refers to the lasting discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS related to perceptions of social groups, lifestyle, as well as continuing misconceptions about how HIV is transmitted.

This term overlaps with, but is distinct from fear, and the index term "fear" refers to fear and uncertainty associated with the many unknowns about AIDS, mostly in the 1980s.

Found 8 search result(s) for stigma OR stigmatization.

Page: 2.1 Paul Volberding — The First Patients (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... case, of course. It's important to remember how devastating and 00:14:30 stigmatizing this disease was. It still is stigmatizing, but in these days, this is a patient with Kaposi's sarcoma. In a typical clinic, patients become very well ... ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 4.4 Michael Worobey — Spread of HIV in the New World (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... more years to spread unchecked in this country than it did in say the US. Part of the stigmatization of Haiti over the years has involved the high prevalence of the virus there. To me, this is part ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 8.5 Sharon Lewin — Research to a Cure: A Possible Goal? (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... mission hospital in the middle of nowhere in Kenya in 1989. Actually, at that time, HIV was enormously stigmatized. In fact, it was really difficult to even test patients at that time, but the growing reality of this being ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: fear (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... leading to hospitals and physicians refusing treatment of AIDS patients. The term HIV/AIDS stigma overlaps but is distinct, and refers to the lasting discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS related ...
Aug 29, 2020
Page: 3.1 Marty St. Clair: Discovery of AZT as the First Anti-HIV Drug (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... 02:30 population that came into this country. We've been fighting all these years' stigma, and having appropriate names, certainly is one way to fight stigma. September 1982, CDC reported 593 cases of AIDS in the United States with 243 ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 2.2 James Curran — Deciphering the Epidemiology of AIDS (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... can tell you from working on STDs in 10 years, we were stigmatized just like the diseases were. Nobody wanted to work on STDs, or drug use ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 9.2 Staffan Hildebrand — Face of AIDS Project (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... also, it made me understand others people's fears that you meet in all this stigma that is still surrounding HIV and AIDS because you had it yourself one time ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 9.1 Jon Cohen — Responding to AIDS: A Journalist's View (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... AIDS a popular disease. It could happen to anyone, to, "Innocent people," because the whole stigma and discrimination that had happened with gay men, well, it couldn't apply to hemophilia, it couldn't ...
Apr 27, 2021

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