U.S. Attitudes about HIV Lag Behind the Science

The prognosis for people with HIV has changed dramatically over the last 25 years, from almost-certain death to long life with a chronic disease. How comfortable the rest of us feel about being with the HIV-positive hasn't shifted all that much.

That seeming disconnect was brought home recently when the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia announced the settlement of a discrimination case involving a bariatric surgeon who allegedly refused to meet with a patient with HIV.

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