ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

The “HIV/AIDS” Phenomenon level of knowledge perceptions and atitudes 259specialists, doctors, psychologists, and so on, especially to know how to getclose to someone infected, how to approach his family, how to „work better inhis social environment”, etc. I think we need to meet specialists.” (Priest Alba-Iulia). Regarding the ways to inform about different aspects of the disease and ofthe reports with the sero-positives, the opinion was that group discussions arepreferred “in groups of 10-15 people which should have different hand-outs,CDs, and videos on the disease, etc.” (priest Alba-Iulia).Additionally, people would be receptive to information about the dangerof the disease and the ways of transmission or the need to not stigmatize andexclude the infected ones, if they would directly contact the sick 58 and if theywould be presented with the cases 59 . This could apply to the communities whichhave had to deal with sero-positives.The priests have accentuated the idea that this “scary” virus is transmitedthru the negligence of people, because of their lack of education, ignorance, theircrazy behavior, absence of hygiene measures that would eliminate the risk ofcontamination. If such situations still happen in hospitals with trained personnelwho consider all aspects of contamination, we shouldn`t wonder why the publicunits can turn into sources of spreading the disease, such as: the barber shops werethe possibility of getting infected out of lack of knowledge is extremely high. In acase told by a priest from Galati, the lack of information about the way oftransmitting the virus, of the protection measures from a barber shop to eliminateany risk of contamination has been ”combined” with a strong fear of the employerwho`s “aware” that he deals with a sero-positive 60 .58 “They should visit those sick people at the hospital or where they are and this is howthey could realize how lucky they are for being healthy but also because they could be in the samesituation as the sero-positives and need help.” (priest Galaţi)59“I say that the direct contact between the people and the sick one will matter verymuch. The efforts of certain associations need to act appropriately. It won`t be very fruitful forsome young girls who come showing their bare necks and wearing very tight clothing or an outfitwhich is not appealing for the habitants of our villages.” (priest Timiş)60“When I went to the barber shop my wife kept nagging me not to lethim shave me because he is using one razor for more people. One day as hekept insisting (to offer this service to me) I told him that he can not use a razorbecause I have AIDS. He bearly touched me at all. He finished the hair cutimmediately. It was a bad joke coming from me but I couldn`t get over the factthat there might be a slight possibility of contamination.” (priest Gala ţi)