Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...choose answer (D), a combination of all of the above. Football player, you bother me. What bothers me more, I’m guilty by association. What bothers me even more is you’ve dragged your friends’ names through the dirt. You keep the stigma surrounding the phrase “Harvard Football” alive...
...Miss hiv Stigma Free pageant, held last weekend in the Botswanan capital, Gaborone, is a beauty show with a difference. All 12 competitors are infected - and determined to prove that living with HIV doesn't slow them down or make them any different. "We are all human beings," says show founder and organizer Kesego Basha-Mupeli, herself hiv positive. "What we want to prove is that we are exactly the same as everyone else. We can live productive, positive and happy lives. Here we are. Accept...
...there's still a long way to go. The stigma of aids remains almost as prevalent as the disease, hampering efforts to contain its spread and adding to the burden of those infected. The contestants in the pageant all work with welfare groups: helping those who have contracted HIV; educating those who have not. Says contestant Malebogo Mongwaketse, 26: "People still have that fear. We're trying to show that knowing your status is a good thing...
...Kgalalelo Ntsepe, the outgoing Miss HIV Stigma Free, knows all about fear. Four years ago, tired and thinning, with recurring skin rashes and sweaty spells at night, Ntsepe decided to go for an HIV test. "I went two times, and only made it on the third attempt," she says. "I wasn't sure what I had but I was scared." Within weeks of being diagnosed, she started taking antiretroviral drugs and began to get better. In her role as Miss HIV Stigma Free, Ntsepe has lectured in schools and companies around Botswana and visited Kenya, Uganda and Thailand to talk...
...College and the organizations if some dialogue could exist between them. For the College, dialogue could allow some small measure of input, presumably dealing with student safety, to inform the actions of the clubs. There is reason for the clubs to open up as well. Much of the stigma surrounding final clubs arises from misconceptions—misconceptions that are only strengthened by the secrecy of the clubs. These steps do not necessarily need to lead to a formalized relationship between same-sex organizations and the College, but we hope that it would lead to a new culture of openness...