This article isn't professional but it has a point. The piece is about a woman who lost her "best friend" after revealing was HIV+. I put those words in quotations because a person who genuinely cared for another might freak out, but not abandon a person over a virus.
This wasn't in the olden days of HIV/AIDS. This was 2021, decades into the fight against HIV. The woman in this piece details her situation & what she wish had been different.
It's the 2020's & ignorance & stigma are alive & well. The problem is they always will be with us. Stigma is a result of ignorance, hate, control... A + diagnosis threatens those things. They can't punish a virus, so they go after the person. I think it's time to stop fighting stigma & just help people learn how to handle those situations as best they can. You can't control other people.
That's all for now, take care.
Cya...
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