What does HIV look like to you? A project by Meade Inglis, Jesse Mangold, Kerry Mallinson, Chandler Moore, & Samantha Morales
Female, 119, 9, MMechanical echanical Engineering and B&iology Female, Engineering Biology
Female, GlobalHealth Health Female,19, 20,Sociology Biology &&Global
Male, 20, Biology & Chemistry
Male, 24, Engineer “There are certain common risk factors for HIV, but just because you have it doesn’t make it a death sentence. Magic Johnson is the best example of that to me. The technology is there and has come a long way.”
Female, 19, Biology Male, 21, Mechanical Engineering
Male, 21, Neuroscience & French
Male, 19, Biology and Psychology
Male, 21, Biology “When I was working at an HIV clinic in Kenya, no one wanted to come in to get tested.�
Male, 23,Female, Mechanical Engineering 15, theater
Male, 21, Mechanical Engineering
Female, Health and Economics Male,18, 19,Global Chemistry & Global Health
“You can’t tell they have HIV. It doesn’t change them, just like any other disease.”
Female, 23, Engineering
“I drew a person who I know who disclosed to me that she was HIV+.”
Female, 48, Business Administration
“This is Tom Hanks in the movie Philadelphia. He is a lawyer who gets diagnosed with HIV and is heavily discriminated against in the law community.�
Male, 19, Public Policy
Male, 19, Biomedical Engineering
Female,21, 20,Biology Biology&&Global Global Health Health Male,
Male, 70, Global Health Professor
“My first exposure to patients with HIV was in Africa in 1972 before we knew what the disease was. All of these guys were very thin and were said to have Slim Disease.�
Female, 22, ComputerEngineering Science Male, 21, Mechanical
Female, 21, Political Science and Economics
Female, 21, Psychology and Chinese Male, 20, Biology & Chemistry
Male, 21, Sociology
Male, 20, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Female, 20, Biology & Global Health
Male, 20, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Female, 19, Psychology
Female, 55, Lawyer
“My drawing is supposed to represent mostly images of fear, despair, and isolation, but with rays of hope because of drugs that can now treat HIV and the burgeoning acceptance of people with HIV/AIDS as human beings.�
Female, 19, Biology & Global Health
Female, BiologyScience & Global&Health Male, 19, 19, Computer Biology
Male, 20, Neuroscience & Computer Science
Male, 19, Chemistry & Global Health
Male, 20, Neuroscience & Philosophy
Female, 19, English
Male, 21, Mechanical Engineering
“When I think of HIV, I think of finality and how permanent it is. For many it’s a death sentence.”
Female, 19, Biology
“I drew a person surrounded by both support and the virus.�
Female, 20, Biology and Innovation & Entreprenuership
“I think of HIV as being on the verge of a death sentence but not quite there. I think of it as something that is somewhat preventable—people tend to put themselves in high-risk positions, so that’s why I drew a noose.”
Female, 19, Marine Biology
Male, 49, Digital Media Production
“Dead leaves remind me of the epidemic and how HIV left many people looking thin, fragile, and many died.�
Male, 21, Biology
Male, 21,Computer Science
“I drew a cliff to convey a sense of loneliness, since people who are HIV+ are often ostracized from society. HIV+ people are on the edge, yearning to fit in and debating whether their lives are still worth living.�
Male, 22, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Female, 20, Neuroscience
Male, 21, Computer Science
Female, 15, Theater Male, 23, Mechanical Engineering
Female, 22, Biomedical Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
“I wanted to represent the stigma of HIV, so I drew people separated on two sides.�
Female, 19, Environmental Science