A student learning about the early AIDS epidemic wonders why the patients were stigmatized. What response by the nurse was best?
a. Fear of the unknown etiology
b. Expense required government assistance
c. Patients being ashamed of their illness
d. Younger patients not having accomplish-ments
A
Stigma arises out of specific characteristics of a disease or an unknown etiology, which causes fear. In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, not much was known about transmission, which generated fear in health care workers and the general population.
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