Socioeconomic

Egypt's AIDS Patients Suffer Social Stigma

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 21st, 1998

Life changed dramatically for the 35-year-old Egyptian when he found out three years ago that he had contracted HIV after having sex with a foreign woman.

He was kicked out of his house by his brothers and lost his job as a janitor at a Cairo hotel.

"My mother and I have nowhere to stay ... we live in the streets after my brothers kicked me out of the house when they found I had AIDS," said the man, exhausted and ill as he sat at a Cairo hospital waiting for his regular treatments.

Like other AIDS patients in Egypt, he declined to be named for fear of being ostracized by a mostly conservative society where strict cultural taboos...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1998-09-21)

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