To talk about the discrimination, even the violence, that some HIV and AIDS patients still confront once their condition becomes known.

Universal access and human rights.

3-a → Reggie Smith. He's an HIV positive author, a certified holistic health practitioner and an advocate for living well with HIV

3-b → Dr. Sohail Rana, professor of pediatrics and child health at Howard University. Has been taking care of children and adults with HIV/AIDS for some 25 years.

4-a → He was diagnosed in 1988 when there were no medications.

4-b → AIDS patients now have more options.

4-c → People are not as afraid of catching the virus.

4-d → People have begun to minimize the importance of staying HIV negative, which is an unfortunate thing.

He was tested when his wife was pregnant with their first baby.

6-a → Because he was in a high risk group as

6-b → he had been an IV drug user

6-c → he was sexually very active

No, he even says they may have, in some way, become worse. He says most individuals with HIV have to think a hundred times before they tell somebody that they have HIV.

He disclosed his HIV status after he’d known he was HIV positive for 15 years.

His doctor almost didn't want to treat him.

Just dealing with folks caused a lot of pain and trauma.

He modified his behavior in response to something, in anticipation

It caused a lot of problems, and stressed his marriage to the point of almost dissolution.

To understand this phenomenon of stigma and de-stigmatize all illnesses, by spreading knowledge

First example: an 18 year-old girl who changes three buses to go to a school that is far away from her home just because somebody whispered about her diagnosis in her previous school.

Second example: a 16-year-old patient’s sister refuses to hug him because she thinks she will catch AIDS if she does.