(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 30 – On the occasion of the World Day against Aids on Discovery + Wednesday 1 December, Stigma invisibile arrives, the special on HIV that deals with the disease thanks to the testimonies of protagonists who live with the virus and with stigma that is still present and is often more difficult to manage than the virus itself. The special conceived and written by Michela Chimenti, is made by the Story Farm production company under the direction of Alessandro Carlozzo and Luca Cepparo.
July 3, 1981: the New York Times talks for the first time about a cancer affecting homosexuals. It’s AIDS. Today, 40 years later, the therapies guarantee a quality and life expectancy, both for HIV + and AIDS people, comparable to those who do not have the virus. However, this is not yet talked about. HIV and AIDS carry the burden of illness and judgment, of sin, of guilt. In 1981, science had few tools to avoid the spread of the virus and the stigma associated with it. In 2021, therapies and access to them are within everyone’s reach (at least in the First World), but the judgment towards who is HIV + is more rooted than ever. In 40 years we have learned to manage a virus and to annihilate it (as it is told in the special), but to dismantle the stigma you need much more than a pill.
How difficult can it be to reveal that you have HIV? How to handle the love and desire of a family after an HIV diagnosis? Can a HIV positive mother give birth to a negative child? Real people talk about these and many other themes, in a direct, new, exciting way without filters and above all without self-pity. But what do young HIV + people of the 80s and 90s remember? And what did they feel when faced with the diagnosis? They are the ones who explain how, after the first moment of disorientation, today they live a full and normal life, coming to negativize the virus in their organism, thus preventing it from being transmitted to others. The importance of testing, early diagnosis and new therapies are all fundamental tools in reducing the number of new infections. (HANDLE).
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