Mexico City

“Despite the advances, there are barriers that make it difficult to end the HIV epidemic. Many things have changed in twenty years, people’s perception of the illness has changed, people see this not as a serious illness but as a chronic disease. But I think what persists is a stigma on how it was acquired: this has to do with your sex life, it has to do with the bad, the dirty, the sinful. People have learned to discriminate without being so obvious; Before they said, 'do not come in', today you come in but there are certain restrictions. There are always other ways to exclude people. Those who work with patients must be much more careful. A whole series of discriminatory ramifications persist.”