As early as 1987, Joanthan Mann, director of the WHO Global AIDS Programme, stated that “stigma, discrimination and denial will be as catastrophic as the disease itself”, and Edwin Cameron, a WHO AIDS expert, said that “AIDS is perhaps the most stigmatized disease in history”. Thirty years later, AIDS treatment has become increasingly accessible, and AIDS prevention has become not only possible, but a key component in controlling the epidemic; sadly, however, stigma and discrimination are still unconquered. Xie Zheng, Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine According to extensive surveys, a significant percentage of the public still discriminates against AIDS and AIDS patients. Among all groups, the attitude of health care workers is of particular concern because of the special nature of their profession, but unfortunately, a survey conducted by Beijing Ditan Hospital shows that more than 60% of health care workers have discriminatory attitude toward AIDS or AIDS patients. From the author’s experience in the AIDS prevention and treatment profession, it is indeed quite common for colleagues and students around me to have discriminatory attitudes towards AIDS and AIDS patients. To achieve the goal of “0” discrimination advocated by WHO, the current situation is not optimistic! The key issue is that health care workers should be clear that they are at the forefront of eliminating discrimination against people with AIDS and HIV! There are several reasons for discrimination among health care workers: incorrect knowledge of AIDS, risk of professional exposure, protection of other patients, psychological pressure from “stigma”, etc. The reasons for this are that health care workers may display discriminatory attitudes through various behaviors: shirking their responsibilities, failing to provide timely treatment, using “cold violence” during treatment, and over-protecting patients. Of all these behaviors, the most dangerous is the one that leads to the arbitrary handling of medical information and the further disclosure of patients’ privacy due to discrimination. On the one hand, this is a serious loss of medical ethics for health care workers, and on the other hand, the lack of confidentiality of HIV infection reduces the trust of HIV patients in the social support and medical service system, and greatly increases the patient’s sense of discrimination. In a survey of people with HIV, one sixth of people with HIV reported that health care workers told others about their infection without their permission. This behavior has violated the provisions of the national AIDS prevention and control regulations and may lead to serious consequences that should be taken seriously by health care workers. At present, the state has taken many positive and effective measures to eliminate discrimination against AIDS and AIDS patients, such as the enactment of the AIDS Prevention and Control Regulations, and the involvement of international organizations (Global Fund, WHO, Gates Foundation, Clinton Foundation) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Along with national advocacy and policy development, the question of what methods to use to promote attitudinal change among health care workers has become an urgent issue. Some people may think that health care workers should have more knowledge about HIV than the general public, but this is not the case. A survey by the international charity Marie Stopes found that 67% of health care workers were able to correctly answer the three routes of HIV transmission, 25% knew what standard prevention was, and 39% had received training on HIV. Only then will health care workers be able to implement correct protective measures in medical activities and when occupational exposure is suspected, and their attitude toward AIDS and AIDS patients will return to objectivity and fairness. In addition to clarifying the responsibilities of general hospitals and designated hospitals, hospital administrators should also clarify and strengthen the protection of health care workers against HIV infection due to occupational exposure, which will effectively reduce the occurrence of discrimination in the medical environment. In short, there is still a long way to go to eliminate discrimination against HIV and AIDS patients, and we, like all AIDS patients, look forward to the early arrival of “0” discrimination.