Volberding: There are so many ways in which stigma affects how the public perceives transmissible diseases like HIV, and also how people themselves facing the infections experience these kinds of epidemics. Medscape: Using the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a framework, would you say that stigma - both initially and throughout the decades - is significantly intertwined with outcomes?
I think that there's a horrible possibility that it will continue it's raising all of the same issues. There's a tendency for many groups in our country and globally to start pointing fingers, and in this case pointing fingers at the gay community again. It shows our reflexes of blaming and targeting and stigmatizing continue.
Just today, I've seen news reports from Africans saying that you're targeting us in the same way.