Abstract
Jennifer Furin's inspiration to be a doctor came from the early days of the HIV epidemic. Two schoolmates with haemophilia contracted HIV through contaminated blood products, and subsequently died of AIDS. Yet unlike another schoolfriend who had died in different circumstances, where there was open discussion and grieving, teachers and pupils alike showed no sympathy or empathy for these students with haemophilia when their HIV status became public. “No-one supported these two brothers, there was so much fear and stigma”, Furin tells The Lancet Infectious Diseases. “To have this horrible disease, and on top of that for people to treat you so badly…I knew it was wrong. I wanted to be an HIV doctor from that moment. A doctor with empathy”.
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