How to tackle the stigma of living with HIV | Gareth Thomas

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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After his HIV diagnosis, former pro rugby player Gareth Thomas set out on a mission to tackle the stigma and shame that prevent people from getting the testing and care they need. In this empowering talk, Thomas shares his mission to demystify and redefine what it means to live with HIV -- and shares how each of us can normalize conversations around all vilified conditions.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hume.
0:07.1	A lot of folks think that HIV doesn't affect them, but the truth is, anyone can get the
0:12.1	virus and a majority of cases are among women.
0:16.0	It's such a stigmatized illness that it can keep people from testing for it or seeking
0:19.8	care.
0:20.8	So in his 2022 talk from Ted at BCG, former rugby player, Gareth Thomas, shares how he's
0:26.5	leveraging the power of sports and celebrity to remove the punishing and sometimes dangerous
0:32.3	stigmas around HIV.
0:36.1	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:40.3	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
0:45.1	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:49.5	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:54.7	Today's episode is on maintaining hope and crisis, with surgeon and public health leader
0:59.2	at Tuo Gawande.
1:00.2	I'm lucky, I get to have the agency.
1:03.6	It gets me down, it's feeling I have nothing I can do.
1:06.8	When I'm just doing surgery and I see the way that the system around me breaks, how people
1:12.0	can't get access to seeing me and other colleagues because they don't have insurance or they
1:17.6	never had a primary care doctor who recognized that they had an illness that required surgical
1:22.2	attention and time for me to be able to address it or the systems don't even exist for
1:28.2	5 billion of the people in the world.
1:30.2	That's what gets me down.
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