subject: The Disease in STDs is not the Virus But The Ignorance [print this page] No one wants to admit he or she has an sexually transmitted disease (STD). No one desires to come out and confess. With the stigma about STDs from the Bible times to the present-day media, infected people would rather shut their mouth and curl up in their shame. STDs remain the unspeakable, a taboo, and only couple of would stand up and say they are infected.
No one would claim an illness, and instead of claiming, people would do the blaiming. For example, during war times, Syphilis was called the "enemy's disease". It was stated that the Italians named it "the Spanish disease." The French named it "the English disease." Russians named it "the Polish disease." Arab people labelled it "the disease of the Christians."
Despite tremendous advancements in understanding, managing and distributing information about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), people would still deny them. Instead of understanding, they turn their heads towards ignorance. Ignorance and misunderstanding always trigger discrimination. Even though we are in the technological age, a lot of people feel like they are going to be burned at the stakes like it is in the witch hunting centuries.
Because few people voice out their predicaments, it's {impossible to#you can't really} get an accurate account of how many people have sexually transmitted diseases. Data will never be 100% correct, since there are millions of people who are scared to report their cases.
But as times improve and as STD cases get out in the public, although there is always the taboo, the easiest way to get people aware is to get it out there. Misinformation about STDs is gradually fading away, and people are starting to believe that STD are real.
They have been around for centuries and the viruses, bacteria and fungi that caused them have also evolved like we have. It is simply via positive support and helping that we can teach and learn about these illnesses. If not the microorganisms, at least we will be able to beat the prejudice.
Until the people stop denying the condition, these illnesses will press on society silently and deadly. And until people cease placing negativity in this human problem, the circle of ignorance and prejudice will continue to revolve just like the illnesses we attempt to hide. They will remain and continue to affect people.
STD Denial- no one really wants to acknowledge where they come from, and people only want to blame others. STDs are running rampant and we're pointing fingers. What do we do?
The Disease in STDs is not the Virus But The Ignorance
