User:AHunterL/Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS

"Tim McCaskell explains that AIDS wasn't seen as a health crisis until public health officials realized that marginalized people could infect other, non-marginalized people. This was the first time that he realized that medicine and health were viewed as political topics. Suddenly, access to proper health care became a political problem. AIDS Action Now explored the fact that medical professionals were treating people in the hospital as lesser humans. He also found out that there was no money for research or education. Doctors were ignoring their roles as fiduciaries for medically fragile people while the public believed that the doctor-patient relationship meant remaining as neutral as possible."

Add into this paragraph that the government's lack of response allowed for the epidemic to further and spread. This coincides with the idea that the epidemic was not taken seriously until individuals that were non-marginalized were also contracting the disease.