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Paris Hilton Says Most Gay Guys 'Probably Have AIDS'

In an audiotape, Paris Hilton is heard perpetuating the myth that most gay men have AIDS, RadarOnline.com reports

Published
21 September 2012
From
Poz magazine news
Experiences of stigma
UGANDA: Decades later, HIV stigma lingers

Ugandans have grown familiar with HIV over the past three decades, but new research suggests that many are still scandalized by it; according to the 2011 National AIDS Indicator Survey, released on 18 September, many people still attach shame and blame to people living with the virus.

Published
20 September 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Experiences of stigma
US: Police Video Prompts Allegations of HIV Discrimination

A Michigan police officer was caught on tape telling a man and a woman that he was issuing them traffic and marijuana possession tickets because he was “aggravated” that the woman failed to disclose her HIV-positive status before he searched the couple’s car. The incident has raised allegations of discrimination and violations of civil rights.

Published
20 September 2012
From
American Independent
Prisoners
The price paid by HIV-positive prisoners

If you want to know what it was like to live with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, state prisons in Alabama or South Carolina in 2012 offer some tragic examples.

Published
17 September 2012
From
Washington Post
Experiences of stigma
Man kills girlfriend for revealing she was HIV positive

Dallas police say a 36-year-old man has admitted to fatally stabbing his new girlfriend following her revelation that she was HIV positive after they had sex, WFAA-TV reports.

Published
11 September 2012
From
USA Today
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
Op-ed: Antigay Blood Ban and What It Means to be Gay

Protesting the ban, if not exactly disloyal, is a challenge to gay solidarity; it alienates positive gay men from negative gay men... The desire to overturn the ban prompts some uncomfortable, soul-searching questions: Are some gay men more concerned with appearing “normal” than with the life-or-death issues that still affect our people? Are some gay men protesting the ban because of their fear of HIV and because of a fear of being associated with it? What are our motives here?

Published
04 September 2012
From
The Advocate
Women
Forced sterilisation: Doctors face probe

Doctors in government and public hospitals are being investigated after a study claimed that they are sterilising women with HIV without their knowledge. Others are forcing them to undergo tubal ligation in exchange for antiretroviral treatment, according to the survey.

Published
31 August 2012
From
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Behaviour change interventions
Notorious 1987 Australian AIDS ad returns in gentler reincarnation

First appearing in a notorious anti-AIDS commercial 25 years ago, the controversial Grim Reaper character will feature in a Queensland Government campaign running across the commercial television networks from September 9.

Published
28 August 2012
From
Herald Sun
Telling people you have HIV
Please Don't Infect Me, I'm Sorry

I've turned down guys who are open about their positive status. I had it drilled into me that this was a disease to stay far, far away from. I also know better than to sleep with someone who announces himself as HIV positive. Or knew. Now I'm not exactly sure what to think.

Published
23 August 2012
From
Gawker
Experiences of stigma
HIV sufferer's anger at Helston tattoo refusal

A woman living with HIV in Cornwall, south-west England, has hit out after saying she was refused a tattoo by a Helston studio. Veritee Reed-Hall's allegations have been strongly denied by the owners of Hell's Gate, who have insisted the decision was actually to protect her. A Porkellis woman living with HIV has hit out after saying she was refused a tattoo by a Helston studio. Veritee Reed-Hall’s allegations have been strongly denied by the owners of Hell’s Gate, who have insisted the decision was actually to protect her. Mrs Reed-Hall said she had wanted her first tattoo, at the age of 59, to feature an entwined red and pink ribbon – red for HIV awareness and pink for breast cancer, to which she has lost friends and family members in the past. Mrs Reed-Hall, who contracted HIV from her husband after he became infected while in Brazil, said: “It really makes my blood boil. I know the reason is they’re worried about their other customers. People are so ignorant."

Published
15 August 2012
From
Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk
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