HIV AIDS , Stigma , and Social Discrimination :A Quantitative Analysis of AIDS Patients and Ordinary Villagers in Two Chinese Rural Communities

As a highly stigmatized social illness, AIDS has caused tremendous social fears and consequent practices of social exclusion and social discrimination all over the world , simply because it' s three widely recognized qualities, that is, high mortality , multichannel contagious, and very limited chance of being cured .Based on empirical survey data gathered from two specific groups the AIDS patients, and the ordinary villagers in two Chinese rural communities, this article gives out a quantitative analysis of the relationship between local AIDS epidemiology and level of social discrimination against AIDS patients and their family members within local communities.The author not only presents descriptive data of the forms and levels of locally embedded social discrimination against AIDS victims, but also brings out two regression models to explain levels of social discrimination that reported by AIDS patients and the ordinary villagers respectively .In the first two parts of this article , the author has traced relevant literatures regarding two topics:first, the rise of AIDS as a social illness and the responses of global social sciences towards it;and then, the current status of Chinese academic efforts on AIDS .

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