We’ve been hearing this word a lot since Covid-19 settled in our backyard. In Nakuru County, for instance, neighbours burnt a business premises of a woman they falsely accused of spreading Covid-19. That she had been whisked to hospital in an ambulance removed any shadow her neighbours had that she had Covid-19. The only way to get rid of this kind of damaging stigma, drawing from what happened with HIV, is for people with Covid-19 or those who have been affected by it to publicly speak about it. The stigma surrounding HIV is now as good as gone.

Source: Daily Nation July 26, 2020 06:00 UTC