Why there is so much fear,stigma and discrimination among some health care professionals towards HIV Positive persons?
You may think the main reason is fear of getting the infection.But there are other serious infectious diseases which are much more easily transmitted to health care workers like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and Open Tuberculosis.Patients suffering from these diseases are usually not stigmatised or discriminated. Then why against HIV/AIDS?
This website summarises the reasons well.If you have any views or comment please be free to express it here.
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