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In 10 years the attitude changed not only toward disease, but also toward patients. Firstly, treatment in now available and HIV / AIDS is no longer a deadly disease, but chronic one. This means that people with such a diagnosis can live a normal life for many years. The attitude toward patients has changed. More and more people began to understand that HIV -positive – is not necessarily a person living an immoral lifestyle. There are more brave people who are not afraid to show their faces and argue that HIV infection is not a stigma leaving disfiguring scars on the body. They are not different from us. Like everyone, they want to live, work, help the society, love, have children and just be happy. But myths about AIDS are deeply ingrained in people’s minds, so unfortunately, it’s very difficult to eradicate them and therefore, even today stigma and discrimination are still a common thing. Even if we know that HIV is not transmitted by using the same bathroom, while shaking hands or kissing, many people still do not want to study, work, or even having their holidays close to people living with HIV.
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