stigmatized
In the public health history of fighting infectious disease we've always attempted to isolate the cases of new, particularly dangerous infections. But from the beginning - and primarily because people knew the general BEHAVIOR that caused AIDS - government, and good public health policy did not co-exist.
Instead of facing the wrath of a very loud and angry outcry from a very small minority of people... We let the PC police convince our public health officials to not even require notification of infection to one's sex partners.
Dr. Cary Savitch is not an evangelical, (not even a religious person as best I can tell), but IS one of the leading experts on the matter, AND was the doctor of record for many of the first AIDS patients in the greater San Francisco area where we saw the outbreak come to large numbers first in our nation...
His book is an absolute must read on the subject... it is factual, honest, and perhaps most important - compassionate. Your view of AIDS and our response to it - WILL CHANGE if you walk in the shoes of the doctor who first faced the virus!