In today’s rundown: It’s World AIDS Day. Find out where you can get a free HIV test. The story of a young woman who died after being stigmatized for having HIV. The social impact of long-term unemployment.
— To commemorate World AIDS Day, several D.C.-area organizations are offering free HIV testing, including Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner The Women’s Collective. We Love DC has a rundown of where you can get tested for free!
— Is the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS just as deadly as the disease itself? In a commentary on WAMU, Dr. Sohail Rana explains how one of his patients died after being stigmatized by those closest to her.
— A long period of high unemployment could have a major social impact in the U.S., according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. “There are obviously very severe economic and social consequences from this level of unemployment… so getting new jobs, getting unemployment down is of an incredible importance,” Bernanke said, according to The Huffington Post.
