People infected with the AIDS virus, as well as their friends and families, increasingly face discrimination, says a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Even after science has established that there is no risk of casual transmission, the stigma has a life of its own," chief author Nan Hunter says.
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San Francisco teaches about handling AIDS
June 18, 1990
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SAN FRANCISCO - Steve Walton came here 16 years ago and found the good life, '70s style - meaningful work, communal living, free love.
But during the 1980s, AIDS killed most of his friends. Walton, 43, now has AIDS himself and has left his organic produce business.
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Counting the AIDS losses after 9 years
June 19, 1990
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SAN FRANCISCO - A beautiful black-haired child dies of AIDS before she sees her fifth birthday.
A gay man comes here seeking the good life, but ends up a take-to-the-street activist before he dies.
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Dentists dispute risk of AIDS
Feb. 22, 1991
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ATLANTA - Contracting the AIDS virus from an infected dentist is much less likely than federal health officials have estimated, the American Dental Association says.
At worst, dentists may have infected seven patients in the past decade, says an ADA estimate presented Thursday at a meeting called by the federal Centers for Disease Control.
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Ryan White's mother keeps up AIDS crusade
March 29, 1991
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NEW YORK - Jeanne White still cries easily when she talks about Ryan.
It's been a year since he died, the brave boy from Cicero, Ind., who fought hemophilia, AIDS, hometown prejudice and a long, painful illness before he died last year, at age 18, on April 8.
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AIDS; Guarding the innocent; Disclosure 'a two-way street'
May 17, 1991
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PALM CITY, Fla. - Barbara Webb chose a simple, succinct inscription for her new gold bracelet: HIV positive.
The jewelry seems starkly out of place on the 65-year-old grandmother and high school English teacher. But Webb wears it as a "badge of honor" not a "scarlet A."
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HIV-infected workers get little support
Nov. 11, 1991
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When Magic Johnson revealed he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, he got nothing but praise and overwhelming support from coaches and teammates. That's not always the case for the worker who confronts a boss or a colleague with such news.
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Ala. town shuns AIDS clinic; Most would 'rather not have it here'
Nov. 28, 1990
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OXFORD, Ala. - Inside the old house at 314 Choccolocco St. the public service effort is obvious: a basket of condoms, a stack of posters and T-shirts emblazoned "Fight AIDS, not People with AIDS."
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Working with AIDS; Businesses break through some barriers
Dec. 11, 1991
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SALEM, N.H. - Night sweats. T-cell counts. AZT. HIV.
Doug Smith speaks the language of AIDS. When he was diagnosed in 1986 with the virus that causes the disease, he thought he'd be dead in a month. Five years later, he's the star of a Digital Equipment Corp. seminar on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome at Digital's computer-manufacturing plant here.
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Doctors shun those with HIV
Feb. 4, 1992
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As many as half the USA's private physicians may be illegally refusing to treat patients infected with the AIDS virus, delaying treatments that could prolong patients' lives.
"They're afraid if it gets around they're 'one of those AIDS doctors,' people won't want to be in their waiting rooms," says Dr. Charles Lewis of UCLA, who surveyed 202 private Los Angeles County internists.
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Students stung by HIV stigma; Town feels neighbors' hostilities
Feb. 17, 1992
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BOGATA, Texas - For two months, the 197 students of Rivercrest High School have suffered the fear and hostility of some of their neighbors, but what happened Jan. 31 might have been worst of all:
The Rivercrest girls junior varsity basketball team was stunned when their competitors from nearby Chisum High School refused to shake their hands after a game.
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Magic urges Bush to get in AIDS game
Jan. 15, 1992
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WASHINGTON - Former L.A. Lakers star Magic Johnson handed President Bush a private letter Tuesday that said, "I don't feel you have been there" on AIDS.
Earlier, Johnson attended his first meeting of the National Commission on AIDS, to which Bush had named him.
