About Stigmatization of AIDS and Tuberculosis patients

STIGMATIZATION AND ETHICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
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The stigmatization of AIDS patients and Tuberculosis patients is against ethics and public health.

However, "the antitobacco movement has fostered a social transformation which involves stigmatization of smokers"(1), and yet in this case, since stigmatization was not the main factor for the antitobacco movement but public health, and increased tax on cigarette packs, I could said, the decreasing incidence on tobacco use is a public health achievement.

Source (1) : http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/1/47

Environmental Health Educator
12/22/o5