HIV-AIDS AND TODAY’S SOCIETY
HIV-AIDS AND TODAY’S SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The studies carried out so far regarding the evolution of HIV/AIDS have had as a starting point clinical research enhanced by biomedical and behavioural scientific assessment designed to prevent and treat this disease. Over the years, sociologists have largely contributed to this field through research that focused on the analysis of the institutional and cultural factors that influence individual behaviour. Whenever we talk about the issue determined by HIV-AIDS we should not exclude risk behaviours that might become widely spread and include professional drivers or international workers who might disseminate HIV infection through commercial sex practices. The change of HIV-AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic disease has determined the coming out of new social and cultural realities that have influenced the dynamics and the way HIV infection and AIDS spread at present. The internalized stigma of HIV infection frequently determines a turmoil of guilt, fear of revealing the diagnosis, isolation and despair.

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