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Telling people you have HIV
I'm Sorry My HIV Offends You

It's easy to be an ass on mobile dating apps because you can hide behind a cell phone. It's also easy to get your feelings hurt if you don't quickly come to terms with the fact that guys online can be vicious.

Published
17 March 2013
From
Huffington Post
Mental and emotional health
HIV and the Power of Escape

For the men of the AIDS Generation when death was an inevitability, sex and substances provided an escape, not only from the realities of AIDS, but also from the stigma and discrimination experienced by so many of us growing up as gay men.

Published
10 March 2013
From
Huffington Post
Experiences of stigma
HIV positive jobseeker 'humiliated' by Kent job centre staff

An HIV positive jobseeker said job centre staff made him declare his condition within earshot of others, and told him he had to see a disability adviser.

Published
20 February 2013
From
BBC News
Experiences of stigma
The Increasingly Strange Case of Uncle Poodle

Did Uncle Poodle lie about sending an ex-lover who infected him to jail? And why the hell would he do that?

Published
19 February 2013
From
My Fabulous Disease
Experiences of stigma
HIV man loses restaurant loan 'for own protection'

Bavarian police are investigating a case in which an HIV positive man who wanted to open a restaurant was refused a bank loan “for his own protection” before receiving death threats from neighbours, it was reported on Friday.

Published
15 February 2013
From
The Local.de
PrEP
That Barebacking Thief-Whore: PrEP and Responsibility

I’m fast approaching the four-month anniversary of “My Life on PrEP,” a milestone that I imagine equal parts of you are either thrilled or disgusted to see pass. You've made your views about me and my ideas plain, which I have honestly appreciated - there is much insight to be gained from these accusations and slanderous, mean-spirited comments.

Published
08 February 2013
From
Frontiers LA
Discrimination and the law
Israeli physicians could get green light to deny HIV treatment

The ethics committee of the Israel Medical Association is pointedly refusing to tell doctors that they must treat HIV carriers in all instances.

Published
08 January 2013
From
Haaretz
Human rights
We Are Here: LGBTI in Uganda

"American-born gay photographer D. David Robinson collected portraits and first-person accounts from lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex Ugandans, then turned to The Advocate to offer these brave activists a forum to elevate their stories in their own words."

Published
02 January 2013
From
The Advocate
Experiences of stigma
Dr Steve Taylor: How HIV Stigma Still Kills

A quarter of those with HIV in the UK are entirely unaware of their status, and it's in large part because people are scared to take the simple test that could allay their fears or get them on life-saving treatment. People are still dying of HIV - and it's because stigma is preventing us diagnosing them in time.

Published
17 December 2012
From
Huffington Post UK
Combatting stigma
What can we learn from disease stigma’s long history?

Sara Gorman from Harvard University takes a look at the history of infectious disease stigma.

Published
30 November 2012
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