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"Tucson Region
AIDS stigma lingers after 25 years
Tucsonan exemplifies disease's new face
By Carla McClain
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 06.18.2006
It no longer means certain, gruesome death. We can now live long, productive, almost normal lives with it.
But after a quarter-century battling one of the greatest of all human plagues, AIDS remains a disease of failure and stigma, those who live with it say.
'This is a story of failure, of total failure in so many ways you can't end up anywhere but pessimistic about it,' said Dr. Fritz Bredeek, an infectious-disease physician at Special Immunology Associates, the largest HIV/AIDS practice in Southern Arizona."
"Tucson Region
AIDS stigma lingers after 25 years
Tucsonan exemplifies disease's new face
By Carla McClain
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 06.18.2006
It no longer means certain, gruesome death. We can now live long, productive, almost normal lives with it.
But after a quarter-century battling one of the greatest of all human plagues, AIDS remains a disease of failure and stigma, those who live with it say.
'This is a story of failure, of total failure in so many ways you can't end up anywhere but pessimistic about it,' said Dr. Fritz Bredeek, an infectious-disease physician at Special Immunology Associates, the largest HIV/AIDS practice in Southern Arizona."
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