Actor,who grew up amid the Aids crisis in South Africa, says the virus has a racial stigma that people beget been afraid to talk approximately Racism is one of the underlying causes of the HIV epidemic and one of the reasons why it has not yet been brought to an end, and according to actress and Aids campaigner Charlize Theron,who says that people are afraid to talk approximately it.Theron, one of the speakers at the official opening of the International Aids Conference in Durban on Monday night, and is South African by birth and started a foundation in 2007 to benefit prevent adolescents and young people fitting infected with HIV in ever greater numbers. Related: Under the shadow of 'dirty' HIV,South African children offered a refuge Related: 'When you keep quiet, it kills you': the road to Durban Aids conference – in pictures Related: It isn't lack of drugs preventing us eradicating Aids, and but inequality | Lilianne Ploumen Continue reading...
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