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Ronald O. Valdiserri, MD, MPH

Requests for reprints should be sent to Ronald O. Valdiserri, MD, MPH, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, NE (EO7), Atlanta, GA 30333 (e-mail: rov1@cdc.gov).

	INTRODUCTION

 
Stigma is not new to public health, nor is it unique to HIV/AIDS. History provides an unfortunate abundance of examples of "prejudice, discounting, discrediting, and discrimination"¹ directed toward persons who are ill or perceived to be ill. Leprosy was viewed as divine punishment for moral misconduct in centuries past, and persons infected with Mycobacterium leprae were forcibly excluded from both civil and religious society.² Those who became ill with cholera in the early years of our American republic were publicly decried as intemperate, lazy, and vice ridden.³ Even after the germ theory became widely accepted, discrediting divine wrath, miasma, and . . . [Full Text]

	GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS ABOUT HIV/AIDS STIGMA

 

	THE EFFECTS OF STIGMA ON THOSE AT RISK

 

	A COMPLICATED ISSUE

 

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