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That's the question that the MAC AIDS Fund, a philanthropic organization that supports HIV awareness and prevention programs around the world, was after. So the organization conducted the first global survey of people's perceptions of AIDS, polling people in nine different countries, including the U.S. The results were unexpected: Nearly half of the survey respondents thought that AIDS was not fatal. In India, where rates of HIV are rising, 59% of respondents believed that HIV is a curable disease. And 50% of people overall believed that most patients diagnosed with HIV are currently receiving treatment, when in fact...
...survey also suggests an enduring stigma surrounding HIV. Nearly half of the people surveyed reported being uncomfortable working with those who are HIV positive, while slightly more than half of the respondents did not want to live in the same home as someone infected with...
...their spouses and don't often 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...
...resulting Global Competitiveness Index range from the quality of a nation's roads to the independence of its judiciary to the incidence of tuberculosis to how easy it is to hire an engineer. Parts of the index are culled from official data; many others are drawn from a survey of 11,000 international business executives. This year TIME partners with the WEF to bring you in-depth data on 37 key countries at time.com/globalbusiness...
...eight years," says David Schless, president of the American Senior Housing Association. Nearly half of retirement-community managers intend to at least upgrade their fitness centers this year or next, and a similar percentage said they had already done so in the previous two years, according to a survey by the International Council on Active Aging...