Friday, May 20, 2011

Why do people with HIV/AIDS get discriminated

Why do people with HIV/AIDS get discriminated?
I hear a lot of the time when people find out that someone has HIV/AIDS they say stuff like "Don't touch me" Even if they know they won't catch it as long as they don't exchange "fluids." Same thing happens with gays
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1 :
it's called ignorance
2 :
It's the principle of the matter. I agree with you, it's not right but people tend to go overboard. Even though people know the only way they can get is through fluids, they still have that fear of some how getting the virus through touching.
3 :
Fear
4 :
it's ignorance combined with fear and intolerance. it all goes back to the 1980s when aids was just becoming known and there were all kinds of myths circulating. unfortunately, those myths havn't gone away.
5 :
Because there is so much ignorance in the world still regarding HIV its ridiculous.
6 :
The biggest problem is people don't know how to deal with people that are HIV+. So many people have thoughts that were from the 80's when we first found out about HIV. So many people don't have the knowledge of HIV and how you can become infected. When we first heard about HIV in the early 80's it was the gay disease, we all heard about how the gay population was becoming infected, what we didn't hear was about the Haitian injection drug users at the same time. People need to be educated and the myths done away with.
7 :
Fear and ignorance

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