Why using the term ‘clean’ for HIV negative diagnosis is dangerous: Activist responds to Pati Chapoy’s statement

2023-06-11 00:57:35

  • An activist also attacked Pati Chapoy and explained why saying “clean” when you test negative for HIV was not correct.

After Daniel Need
be honest with Where is Chapoy? and talk about the test HIV to which she underwent at the time, the presenter of Ventaneando was accused of “misinforming” the public about this disease.

A few days ago, the first part of the interview that Chapoy conducted with his colleague was presented, where he talks about the uncertainty he had when he thought he might have been infected with HIV.

During the conversation, the actor also said that a test he underwent had come out positive, but that he later learned that his first diagnosis had been wrong, to which the presenter pointed out that it had come out “clean”.

Although she did not make another comment on the subject, many Internet users were upset with the journalist, as they stated that she is only “promoting” myths that they believed about people with this condition.

Pati Chapoy referred to Daniel Bisogno’s negative HIV diagnosis as “clean” / YouTube: Ventaneando

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“How disgusting how @ChapoyPati expresses himself with HIV issues, saying that the man came out clean. People living with HIV are not dirty blinds”, “Educate yourself, ma’am”, “You disgust me, Patricia”, “Ignorance on TV Azteca, how strange”, “Did it come out clean? In other words, are people with HIV dirty?”, could be read in some comments.

However, there were some Internet users who only focused on wishing Bisogno all the best and even defended Chapoy from the bad comments, highlighting that the term “clean” is used to diagnose diseases such as Covid-19.

Activist against Pati Chapoy’s comment

Meanwhile, the activist for the rights of people with HIV, Manu León, stressed that what Pati Chapoy said was a “mockery” for people living with this condition, in addition to inciting discrimination.

“It is an insult and a mockery for those of us who live with HIVone more way to reinforce stigmas, promote misinformation and hurt our experiences and struggles, but also those who live with and support such as family and friends”, he mentioned.

The activist Manu León maintained that Pati Chapoy did not correctly handle the issue of HIV / Twitter: @leonriosmanuel

Along with that, he regretted that TV Azteca lent itself to the “morbid” with which the issue was handled, at the same time that he explained why using the word “clean” for a negative diagnosis is not correct.

“This expression is used to stigmatize and assuming, as in every society, that what is dirty must be ‘fumigated’ because it puts the development of other species at ‘risk’,” he pointed out.

Manu León pointed out that the term “clean” only stigmatizes people living with HIV / Twitter: @leonriosmanuel

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