Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Health Equity Skills, Community Partnership Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills Brian Tolleson Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Health Equity Skills, Community Partnership Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills Brian Tolleson

PART 4.3

When HIV first became prominent as a mysterious disease, people had many theories of how it was spread, almost all of them focused on the “immoral and drug-fueled” sexual activities of highly stigmatized groups. They not only held very strong views but they were absolutely certain that they were right. But the public, politicians and scientists were all challenged to rethink their ideas of spread when confronted by reports that the disease could be transmitted by infusing clotting factors from a donor to a patient with hemophilia.

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