AIDS Patients' Stories Still Need to Be Told

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AIDS Patients' Stories Still Need to Be Told

Houston Chronicle (12/19/95) P. 3D
Ager, Susan

In a Houston Chronicle editorial, Susan Ager writes that media coverage of AIDS has changed considerably since the disease's first appearance in this country. She notes that schoolchildren know all about the disease and that it is now referred to by name in obituaries instead of by euphemism. However, she is concerned that "as a society, we shoved AIDS aside once we grew weary of its poignancy," regarding it as "a tired, old story." Ager points to the example of an elderly woman who contracted AIDS from a sexual partner even though she knew he was a drug user because she believed AIDS was a "gay white man's disease." Cases such as this, explains Ager, is why AIDS must remain a focus of media attention and education.

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