In Araguari, Brazil, suspicious customers stopped visiting Evaldo Marques' hairdressing salon when he began to lose weight and complain of suffering from constant diarrhea. Others even shunned the private pool where he swam. When he left town to be tested for AIDS, Araguari police advised him not to come back. He is now severely ill with the disease and living with relatives in Belo Horizonte.
In Genoa, Italy, police refused to touch a sickly young girl wandering aimlessly in a public park until they were provided with gloves. They feared that she was an AIDS victim. She turned out to be...