[Media Watch] Feminism and the AIDS epidemic
Summary
In the 1980s, HIV was considered the disease of gay men and injectable drug users because the first cases were predominantly reported in these groups. Many people in the USA thought that women were immune to HIV, resulting in women being ignored or excluded from receiving an HIV/AIDS diagnosis or support. In her book Risk and resistance: how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, Aziza Ahmed tells a powe…
In the 1980s, HIV was considered the disease of gay men and injectable drug users because the first cases were predominantly reported in these groups. Many people in the USA thought that women were immune to HIV, resulting in women being ignored or excluded from receiving an HIV/AIDS diagnosis or support. In her book Risk and resistance: how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, Aziza Ahmed tells a powerful story of a mother whose life changed with the diagnosis of HIV infection for her husband first and then for herself.