Word: stigmas
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...been a black eye for our town, a stigma...
After the meeting, editor Brandon D. Perkovich ’11 described working in the public health field and constantly “running into social stigma about sex and sexuality...
...Abortion.” The film introduces 11 women who have undergone abortions and who are diverse in age, race, class, ideology, and sexuality. The film means to present abortion as an issue that “affects all women,” and it hopes to slash the stigma associated with what is the most common elective surgery in the United States.An estimated 1.3 million American women terminate pregnancies each year; roughly 43 percent of American women have had abortions before age 45. Yet although abortion is legal, the filmmakers believe it is “still so stigmatized...
...continuous "mainstreaming" of HIV-positive people in the U.S. and Europe have done little to sort out the public's confusion. The problem may be that while advances in treatment and prevention have fueled a misguided sense of complacency about the disease, personal prejudices have kept the stigma and shame about HIV alive. "We may have overeducated the public about the effectiveness of treatment and the availability of treatment," says Nancy Mahon, executive director of the MAC AIDS Fund. "Understanding this is important to change the pace of the epidemic and the nature of the epidemic at this point...
...demand that they practice safe sex. Dr. Geeta Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, notes that women bear the heaviest burden of AIDS around the world. "Women still have problems discussing safe sex with their partners," says Gupta. "This survey highlights the extent to which stigma continues to be a significant barrier to people being able to talk about the epidemic, to accept risk, and to access services. [It] highlights how much more we need to do in order to ... ensure that people around the world understand that HIV/AIDS is [still] an epidemic that puts them...