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It’s easy enough to say that society has evolved in its attitudes towards homosexuality and has learnt that stigmatising a population because of an outbreak of a disease is both counterproductive and morally repugnant. A third of those surveyed said they felt little sympathy for those living with HIV, regardless of how they acquired the virus. Forty years after the first reported cases of HIV, a 2021 report from the National Aids Trust, a British charity, found that respondents reported negative attitudes towards LGBT people. A joint report from Gallup and the International Labour Organisation revealed in December 2021 that 35 per cent of respondents from 50 countries said that people living with HIV should not be allowed to work alongside side those uninfected with the virus.
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The early stigmatisation of HIV is responsible for an untold number of preventable deaths and it reverberates today. Sadly, what has emerged over the last few weeks is a narrative reminiscent of the early days of HIV in which a sexually transmitted virus was quickly used to stigmatise gay men, among whom the initial cluster of cases was found. A virus’s only preference is for bodies without prior immunity that will allow the infectious microbe to invade host cells and replicate. It should go without saying that infectious diseases do not have sexual, racial or national preferences, and that no disease is a “gay” disease. The “close physical contact” can mean transmission via respiratory droplets, contact with broken skin, contaminated bedding or, yes, sexual intercourse. Since 6 May cases have doubled, and according to the UK Health Security Agency most of the reported 20 infections have been found in men who have sex with men.įortunately, the disease is not easily contagious and only spreads by direct physical contact with an infected person. Over the last few weeks the UK has experienced an unexpected outbreak of the rare monkeypox virus.