Monkeypox Impacts Us All — But Stigma Will Hurt LGBTQ+ People Of Color The Most | Refinery 29

CEID Faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre is quoted:

“…When news of the multi-country monkeypox outbreak began this May, some patients pointed out to Cassandra Pierre, MD, medical director of public health programs and the associate hospital epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center, that many of the photos in news stories about the virus featured mostly Black people. This could be stigmatizing, they worried, even if journalists were just using the stock photos that were available based on previous cases, as the infection is endemic to parts of Africa. ‘Now we have more equitable representation,’ Dr. Pierre says. ‘But initially there was a concern that this would be further stigmatizing to people of color based on the representations of the disease.’…”

Read all of Dr. Pierres quotes, as well as the full article here