When people have diseases such as cancer, they receive comfort and compassion. people with diseases such as hiv/aids are stigmatized because: ?

Actually the people with diseases such as hiv or aids are stigmatized when compared to diseases like cancer, because the main reason is that ie, the general mindset of most people regarding hiv/aids which has formed over long period of time, which is lot and lot negative mouth pubilicity more commonly which is notat fully true and another main reason most peoples think that it spreads to them easily even through outside contact with that person.

They create genetic variations