Hiv Is Not A New Disease - 1754 Words

HIV is not a new disease that everyone is talking about these days. This disease each year produces approximately 50,000 new infections and of these new infections, gay males and the black population are the two categories that produce the highest rate of infections. Overall, since the beginning of the epidemic decades ago, over 300,000 gay males have gone from HIV to AIDS and eventually have died from this disease (â€Å"HIV in the United States: At A Glance,† 2014). With this information showing the number of infections and deaths, it is without a doubt that there is a stigma that exists for HIV diagnoses by sexual orientation and race. The accepted view of HIV stigma is that it will affect the overall control of the infection treatment†¦show more content†¦There is also concern of an infected individual telling others, namely their partner, about their status out of fear they will be rejected (Jeffries et al., 2015). What are the conditions and standards used a s indicators of this problem of stigmatizing individuals that are living with HIV? Conditions that affect HIV infection stigma are common and a matter of fact. The sources of stigma can be simply fear of the infection itself, fear of getting the disease from another individual or even death from infection. This stigma specifically is seen in every aspect of an HIV infected individuals life as it could come from their social worker, maybe the people they work with at their job, someone that takes care of them, or simply, the general population itself (Brown, Macintyre, Trujillo, 2003). Furthermore, the standards when reviewing the peer-reviewed articles in order to write this paper, shows an adequate standard as to what stigma and HIV infection is and why it is a problem. When looking at stigma and HIV infections, the distribution is globally. Here in the U.S., in addition to the individual issues someone with HIV can face when dealing with stigma, as a society we can see HIV s tigma in laws, what people are saying about HIV, denial of housing, denial to health services, and so on (Tomaszewski, 2012). In a 2002-2003 study conducted in