Rio Calling: Stigma
Featuring: Dr Tristan Barber (BHIVA), Carluz, Davide Scalenghe, Eliane Becks Nininahazwe, Joan Stephen, Kene Esom, Pankaj Sethi, Vincent LeClerc, Martin Fenerty, Marc Thompson, Nathaniel Hall, Alexander Cheves
Not the tombstone-era kind. This one lives in your dating apps and your GP's waiting room. Dan Hall and dan glass spend Day Two of AIDS 2026 asking delegates where stigma still bites, with Dr Tristan Barber of BHIVA framing the episode with the clinical view from the consulting room.
Archive testimony comes from Martin Fenerty, a counsellor and psychotherapist from Liverpool diagnosed in 1993, on having his confidentiality broken early in his diagnosis; Marc Thompson on U=U and the men who didn't believe him anyway; Nathaniel Hall (episode drops 11 September 2026), actor and theatre maker diagnosed at seventeen, on the fifteen years he kept his status secret and the case for saying it louder; and writer Alexander Cheves on naming shame as the real enemy.
Links
- BHIVA
- HIV i-Base
- AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference
- Terrence Higgins Trust, Stigma
- Prevention Access Campaign, Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U)
Thanks Adam Price, Alix Fox, Anonymous, Apostolos James Vogiatzis, Bryn Gay, Careen Hertzog, Emma20Cole, Garry Brough, Moray Laing, Peter Staley, Philippe Cahill, Ross Fletcher, Sarah Schulman, Simon Collins, Siobhán Allison, Soleta Rogan, Tom McKitterick
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