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...moment, the stigma and misunderstanding about the disease still runs rampant even in capital cities in Africa. That makes it a wrenching adjustment for these doctors, who come from the relatively open society of the U.S. to the more culturally restrained and hierarchical structure found in traditional African nations. When they landed in Africa this summer, the doctors came prepared for the tough questions about drug regimens, and they were primed to talk about the importance of adhering to the drug dosing schedules. But most couldn't begin to appreciate how the very fabric of the new societies in which...
...Dealing with the still rampant stigma over HIV remains a challenge as well. "The nurses scold me for 'talking too loud about HIV' while I'm [on rounds seeing patients]," Sarah Kim writes a month after arriving in Lesotho. "Sometimes I feel like saying, 'well the majority of this ward is positive so we have to talk about it!' But I realize that I shouldn...
...Haven-Tietze ’08 and her younger sister will wait until it’s available to get matching shamrocks. “The new ink makes the decision more reversible, so if I ever decide I don’t want the design or the stigma, I can remove the tattoo,” she wrote in an e-mail. But even if the ink’s imminent release floods parlors around the country, let’s be real: as Haven-Tietze reminds us, “It’s not like having...
...Khadija Moalla, the regional coordinator for UNDP/HARPAS, a regional HIV/AIDS program, is extremely depressed and frustrated. She has been active in this campaign since 2002, and admits that she and other activists face a daunting challenge. "There is silence, denial, stigma and discrimination regarding HIV in the Arab World," says Moalla. Although most Arab governments have national programs to combat AIDS, these are nowhere near equal to the scale of the challenge. For example, the amount of treatment drugs made available through the public health system in Sudan is well short of the number of infections in that country...
...Eighty-five percent of those who are HIV positive are unaware that they are," says Moalla. Anti-retroviral drug treatment is available through the public health system in many of these countries, but few seek it also because of the social stigma and discrimination. Nor have Arab countries adopted laws to protect the civil rights of HIV-AIDS sufferers. Some statistics suggest that 4 out of 5 women HIV sufferers in the Arab World were infected by their husbands. And when the husband dies of the disease, his family will often disown the woman for fear she may be contagious...