Question

Individuals with HIV/AIDS are viewed and treated the same as uninfected individuals in society.

a. True
b. False

Answer 1

I believe this is B) false. The infected individuals are often shunned and ostracized from the society because people are generally scared of being infected with HIV/AIDS, even though they are well aware of how this disease is transmitted.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A: False.

Even though nowadays we have technology, social media and many other ways to acquire information and be informed, society still has a big taboo towards sex and sexual transmitted diseases (STDs). HIV/AIDS is one of the most known STDs and it makes it "bigger" that its one that will likely kill the carrier and that scientists are still working on the cure.

Because of this, people still treat individuals with HIV/AIDS in a different way. Regardless of the fact that everyone knows how you can get infected (only by a sexual act or blood and NOT by touch, a sneeze, etc.) people are judging the person and the way he/she got infected more than the sickness itself, and that is why they treat them different and not the same as uninfected individuals in society.