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...That fear is well founded. Adding to the stigma surrounding AIDS in these villages is the role that local leaders played in the blood-buying program. "Many government officials made a lot of money," says the patient advocate who calls himself Ke'Er. To protect themselves, they wrapped their villages in the cloak of state secrecy, effectively sealing off AIDS patients from foreign aid groups as well as health officials from other provinces. AIDS-care centers still won't put the word AIDS on their doors, opting instead for such intentionally obscure labels as "home garden...
...helps that the stigma once associated with "made-in-India" goods and services is evaporating, thanks to the success of software outsourcing giants such as Infosys and Wipro. "Earlier, you had to spend most of your time selling India and a little time selling your company," says Biren Ghose, CEO of Bombay-based Animation Bridge. "Now, I don't have to sell India. I can start selling my company straight away." Because of globalization, cultural differences that affect production values?the look and feel of programs?are rapidly disappearing, too. "Ten years ago, when Bugs Bunny said, 'What...
...task force was also charged with determining the most effective methods to increase awareness of mental health resources and to lower the stigma of seeking treatment...
...children. The pro-choice fight is by no means a rally behind abortion—it is a rally to change our society to one in which abortion will be a last resort, but a last resort that can be accessed at low cost and low risk, and without stigma or apology...
...cancer and lung disease--yet cleanup funds have been cut so sharply that it could take 10 to 15 years to finish the job. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, miners dumped 60 million tons of toxic metals into waterways, but state officials are fighting a Superfund cleanup, fearing a stigma that might hurt tourism. In New York, General Electric, which contaminated 40 miles of the Hudson River with cancer-causing PCBs, has hired high-profile attorney Laurence Tribe to convince federal courts that the Superfund law is unconstitutional. And in New Jersey, where the rabbits frolicking around the Chemical Insecticide...