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Article: HIV stigma: a question of morality?
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- HIV Nursing
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Even 25 years after the appearance of HIV, it continues to instil fear, and responses seem little changed over time. Perhaps this is not surprising: HIV remains incurable, continues to spread at an alarming rate, and antiretroviral therapies (ART) are still unavailable in countries where they are most needed. And of course, HIV involves the taboo of sex.
This apparent lack of control undoubtedly drives many negative responses, and the tendency to attribute stigma and blame is especially strong when an illness is mysterious and apparently out of control [1]. Evidence-based local HIV-stigma reduction programmes exist in some areas, though success is patchy (for a ...