Knowledge and Discrimination: What Kind of Relationship? Jacques Marquet and Nathalie Beltzer

Common sense tells us that discriminatory attitudes towards people who are HIV seropositive are a consequence of inaccurate knowledge about HIV transmission and means of protection. In this chapter we shall first examine whether there is a relationship between knowledge and discrimination. We shall also explore the possible existence of factors influencing both the level of knowledge about the disease and the degree of tolerance of persons with HIV or AIDS (PWHAs).