Word: stigmas
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...Britain's stigma is spreading to the Continent even faster than the virus itself. The U.S. and Canada, two of the E.U.'s biggest customers, have slapped bans on animal products from all 15 countries, to the anger of farmers and officials. E.U. Health commissioner David Byrne warned that he would "make full use of our bilateral contacts and our wto trade arrangements to have these restrictions lifted." But other countries in Europe and the Middle East also imposed restrictions on E.U. meat products, as did Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia...
...times the number who started in 1990. "There are two reasons that people are abusing prescription pain medications," says David Rolston, a program director at Santa Monica's Clare Foundation rehab center. "They can be used as supplements to street opiates like heroin, and there isn't the same stigma associated with them...
...study reported that many students might avoid seeking mental care for fear of the stigma attached, an especially serious problem during college years when "serious and potentially disabling psychiatric conditions" are likely to occur...
...Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure of the silence that some asked us not to print their real names to protect their privacy...
...Johanna McGeary, who wrote the cover and spent a month traveling through South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that...