While HIV/AIDS was included in the Americans with Disabilities Act, disability activism and disability studies have at times distanced themselves from HIV/AIDS. Disability Studies as a field until recently has had a lack of engagement with chronic illness and diseases like HIV/AIDS or diabetes that are stigmatized and are culturally associated with personal failure. Alison Kafer and Julie Acril Minich have pointed out that the chronic illnesses that Disability Studies tends to have less enagement with are also chronic illnesses that society associates with people of color and poverty. However, recent disability studies theorists have made it clear that HIV/AIDS is a disability and the social treatment of HIV/AIDS is a piece of the societal treatment of disability.