These infections do not just have an effect only on a person's body but also in their life. Infections affect people's lives just as it affects the body, in a negative way hurting them at whatever chance they can get. STDs impact caucasians, black/African Americans, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Asians,etc. It doesn't matter who or what anybody is if you are positive for any type of STD then more than likely they can expect to get discriminated against. The race that is most likely to get discriminated against is the Black/African American because they are the population with the highest diagnoses of STDs out of all of the other races in America. In an AIDS diagnoses in 2007 more than 17,000 black/African Americans were diagnosed with AIDs and in second place was the white population with over 10,000 people being diagnosed with AIDs in 2007 shown in the graph below.
HIV/AIDS Discrimination Today.
One way that STD's can affect people in a negative way is by discrimination from other people such as co-workers, employers, friends, family, health care, housing, education, eating at restaurants, and even in relationships. The legal definition of HIV or AIDs related discrimination according to UNAIDS is the unfair and unjust treatment of an individual based on his or her provided HIV status (Go). If Sexually Transmitted Diseases can play a major role with discrimination in our economy can they hurt the economy is the question and another question is that should people that are infected be forced to reveal their sexual status? .
Studies show that from testing of sixteen nurses in six sexual health services in New Zealand was undertaken to explore the management of sexual health care. The results of these tests resulted in that psychological impact of negative social attitudes towards the people who visit sexual health services and to the staff who work there (White and Mortensen).