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erpindah ke tempat lain makin lama..ah…kesihatan badan saya down”(“Like my friends who lived with me, began to stay away from me. Nevermind. They don’t have knowledge on HIV. All they know is HIV canspread. That’s all. Then, I moved to another place. As time passes by, myhealth [went] down”)(Transgender, 40yrs, Lower secondary education, SW)“Saya ada cerita dekat kawan baik saya…arr…pasal saya…saya punyastatus. Dekat ofis, lepas tu, dia pun beritahu pada management. Jadi,saya marah dengan dia sampai sekarang. Lepas tu, bila human resourcedapat tahu, dia pun suruh saya berhenti. Dan lepas human resource tutahu, macam mulut cepat sampai. Semua orang tahu. Saya pun terus takpergi kerja lah. Saya terus tak pergi kerja, saya masuk rehab”(“I told my good friend...arr...about my...my status, in the office. Then,he/she informed the management. So, i’m angry at him/her until now.After that, when the Human Resource know, they asked me to resign.After the Human Resource knows, words spread very fast. Everyoneknows. I immediately didn’t go to work. I didn’t go to work, I enteredrehab.”)(Male, 32yrs, Upper secondary education)“There is one experience after I found out…after I diagnosed, I got toknow one guy. We went out at the time. It’s very soon, quite soon aftermy diagnosis. I’m still not very sure whether to revealing my status. So, Iwent out with this person for a month, we made up once. I am sure wecan safe as far as we could and on the controlling. After a month or plus, Itold him I reveal to him…and not surprisingly he didn’t keep attachedwith me”(Male, 24yrs, University education, MSM)Clearly, not only for some members of the healthcare profession described earlier, fear ofcontagion is evident as a source for the stigma on HIV among the community:“I was sitting with this guy, HIV patients and this guy sneeze. You know,and the officer working in the government section, suddenly, you know,close his mouth, you know, face and everything, and then he asked me,“can HIV spread through sneezing ah?” I got damn mad”(Male, 36yrs, Upper secondary education, DU)“Dia punya mak cakap macam itu - saya banyak susah hati. Itu baby, itulima tahun punya budak cakap sama saya, “Mak Cik, mak cakap janganduduk sama awak. Jangan duduk sama awak. Nanti, Mak Cik punyasakit saya kena”. Saya susah hati. Saya diam jugak. Tak apa lah. Inibudak kecik, tak boleh marah dia”(“His/her mother said to him/her like that - I [was] very upset. That baby,that 5 years old child said to me, “Aunty, my mum said don’t sit beside82