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The Sound of Stigma

An essay by Mark S. King—an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985—on why HIV stigma among gay men persists.

Published
14 May 2013
From
Poz
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

The Global Forum for MSM and HIV has released an analysis of its 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Study (GMHRS) concentrating on young men under 30 who

Published
01 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Experiences of stigma
South Africa: 'He said sex with a virgin could cure HIV'

A Soweto man allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter, believing it would cure him of HIV. This chilling evidence is part of a police investigation into the rape of the child on February 3.

Published
26 April 2013
From
Independent Online
Epidemiology and behaviour
Young black Brooklyn males struggling with sexual identify fuel Brooklyn HIV crisis

A new generation of young Brooklyn black males - many who hide their sexual identify - are worrying doctors who say they are fueling the borough's HIV epidemic.

Published
25 April 2013
From
NY Daily News
Infant feeding
For African women in the UK, formula feeding has a high social and personal cost

Although most African women living with HIV in the UK do comply with medical recommendations to avoid breastfeeding, doing so comes at a high social and personal

Published
23 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Adherence
Some barriers to adherence for black African people in London are culturally specific

Qualitative research suggests that some of the barriers to antiretroviral adherence for black African and black Caribbean people are culturally specific, while other barriers common to many

Published
23 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
History of HIV and AIDS
AIDS 'Patient Zero' was a publicity strategy, scholar writes

The 1987 New York Post headline - THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS - was arguably one of the most influential of all time. "Patient Zero" - a promiscuous gay Canadian flight attendant - had spread AIDS from coast to coast. The story sparked sensational media coverage, drove a book onto the best-seller lists, pushed the "gay disease" onto mainstream America's radar screen, and helped jump-start an activist movement. It was also wrong.

Published
22 April 2013
From
Philly.com
Experiences of stigma
Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV

Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which was the #3 grossing movie last week, presents HIV not only as if it’s some kind of karmic punishment for female sexual misbehavior, but also as if having the virus makes a woman permanently unlovable and asexual.

Published
22 April 2013
From
RH Reality Check
History of HIV and AIDS
The Crime of Being Positive: the development of HIV laws in the 1980s

In the 1980s corporations, conservatives, and fear turned HIV-positive people into outlaws.

Published
02 April 2013
From
The Advocate
HIV and criminal law
A Spectacle of Stigma: A First-hand Account of a Canadian Criminal HIV Exposure Trial

I recently attended the criminal HIV exposure trial of two young men in Kitchener, Ontario. Each was found guilty of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault for exposing (but not infecting) two other men to HIV. They are now liable for a Life Sentence

Published
02 April 2013
From
AIDS Action Now
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