Professor Ben Wagner in the Herald, calling for Korea to "Abandon discriminatory HIV policy."

Go read Professor Wagner's piece in the Korea Herald, a piece that argues that the mandatory HIV tests for foreign teachers were instituted as a result of bad journalism, and that continues to harm Korea by portraying HIV/AIDS as a foreigners' disease.

Rather than promoting the idea that everyone, Koreas and non-Koreans alike, should seek voluntary testing for HIV, [the Anti-English Spectrum]'s leader is determined to manipulate the public's fear in order to promote his own agenda, even if it means putting the Korean population at risk.

As Shin Surin, the Director of Director of the AIDS Prevention Association of Korea, has explained, "the HIV/AIDS testing rate in Korea is low because people are afraid of the stigma attached to the disease ... As long as stigma, prejudice, and discrimination persist in society, it is easy to imagine that the HIV testing rate will remain low."

And as long as there are groups that seek to increase that stigma, prejudice and discrimination by portraying AIDS as a "foreigners' disease," Koreans living with HIV/AIDS will remain undiagnosed and unknowingly spread the disease in society.

If you haven't yet done so, give Professor Wagner's 69-page report a read as well.