Re: Remove 'AIDS Virus' Language [message #1945 is a reply to message #1688] |
Thu, 10 April 2014 11:23 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/theme/default/images/up.png) |
lnyblade
Messages: 2 Registered: March 2014
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On behalf of the Health Policy Project, I am writing to support removal of the term "AIDS virus". While it may have been helpful a decade ago to use this term to ensure respondents understood the questions, it is no longer necessary. We also know from the past decade of research that equating HIV and AIDS only serves to further stigma.
Laura Nyblade
Senior Technical Advisor, Stigma and Discrimination
Health Policy Project and RTI
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