Karl Schmid is an Australian television reporter working on US TV. The other month he came out as HIV positive on a Facebook post about himself.
Now he's given an interview about the absurdity of HIV stigma in 2018. I can personally relate to that absurdity here in Australia. David had a fellow nurse the other year ask people if he coughed could she get HIV. I had a nurse in Emergency at one of the biggest hospitals in Australia, be overheard by David as she was talking about me "I'm not going near him, he's infectious". These incidents are both in recent times. Unfortunately most HIV stigma in Australia now occurs within the health profession.
Watch as an undetectable person who's had HIV for around ten years (I'm nearly there myself BTW) stands against HIV stigma in today's world.
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