How the World Thinks About AIDS By ALICE PARK (CNN)–Twenty five years into the AIDS epidemic, how much have the publics attitudes toward the disease and toward HIV-positive patients changed?
That’s the question that the MAC AIDS Fund, a philanthropic organization that supports HIV awareness and prevention programs around the world, was after. So the organization conducted the first global survey of people’s perceptions of AIDS, polling people in nine different countries, including the U.S. The results were unexpected: Nearly half of the survey respondents thought that AIDS was not fatal. In India, where rates of HIV are rising, 59% of respondents believed that HIV is a curable disease. And 50% of people overall believed that most patients diagnosed with HIV are currently receiving treatment, when in fact only one in five of such patients received antiretroviral therapy last year.
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