What is HIV and AIDS?
What is HIV and AIDS?
What is HIV and AIDS?
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• If you ‘label’ someone what are you doing?<br />
• Why do you think people d<strong>is</strong>criminate against <strong>AIDS</strong> patients <strong>and</strong><br />
people living with <strong>HIV</strong>?<br />
• Why do you think attitudes are so difficult to change?<br />
• <strong>What</strong> are possible causes of prejudice? E.g. People are frightened<br />
they might get <strong>HIV</strong> & <strong>AIDS</strong> themselves. Some societies refuse to<br />
acknowledge that there are some people living with <strong>HIV</strong> in their<br />
communities. People do not know enough about <strong>HIV</strong> & <strong>AIDS</strong> <strong>and</strong> lack<br />
of knowledge causes fear. People believe it’s ones own fault to get<br />
<strong>HIV</strong> & <strong>AIDS</strong>.<br />
• Ask the group - <strong>What</strong> can we do to limit prejudice?<br />
9. Summary – we all grow up with prejudices for the reasons we have<br />
d<strong>is</strong>cussed. Summar<strong>is</strong>e some of the impacts that were d<strong>is</strong>cussed. Explain<br />
that we can limit prejudice by first changing our own attitudes. We can<br />
use some of the ways we have d<strong>is</strong>cussed to limit our own prejudices <strong>and</strong><br />
encourage our family <strong>and</strong> friends to do the same.<br />
(Source: <strong>HIV</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>AIDS</strong> Pack, VSO China, 2005)<br />
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