When did people start to calm down about HIV/AIDS patients and stop treating them like outsiders? Obviously this was a big thing when she shook his hand, but when did the general public stop treating them like 2nd class citizens?
When it first started to become an epidemic in N.America there was a lot of misinformation. Once people realized that unless you were an intravenous drug user or having unprotected sex with multiple unknown partners (predominantly male homosexual) then your chances of catching it were quite low. The media and others provided bad anecdotal evidence suggesting normal people were at risk but after a decade or so everybody realized 95% of us are living safe and responsible lifestyles. Ironically the old hate adage of AIDS bring a gay disease was more true than not.
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