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Prejudice and stigma can discourage the communities most affected by infectious diseases from seeking care. Inclusive public health messaging can prevent misinformation and guide the most vulnerable.
Can a film’s artful telling of experiences of stigma and HIV, using dance, help promote empathy and compassion?
This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Microaggressions are more subtle than outright discrimination. But they can directly affect HIV treatment outcomes.
The unique challenges of the pandemic changed the way community organisations work. Organisations that worked in silos during other emergencies bundled their expertise and resources.
Even though the spouse escort policy carries good intentions, we found during our study that it constituted a barrier to care in numerous ways.
The agents causing illness do not care for our assumptions about our alleged superiority on the planet, nor do they discriminate.
Changes to the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure in Canada must consider the vulnerability and violence experienced by women living with HIV.
Addressing HIV stigma through utilising the Acholi’s own local cultural system is an empowering process that will position the role of the elders back into the community.
Knowing your HIV status is key to accessing life-saving treatment or evaluating the best prevention options.
Research shows that Aspirin could reduce the number of HIV infections in women at high risk for HIV, such as Kenyan female sex workers.
Gains made in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe could be reversed unless a legal provision is revised.
Teenagers with HIV in childcare facilities have to deal with the challenges of adolescence
while living with the disease.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when accessing health services.
Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
NSW has changed its laws imposing criminal penalties on someone with an STI who doesn’t take “reasonable precautions” to not infect their sexual partner.
HIV remains a synonym for death in Kinshasa and many leave testing and treatment until it’s too late. It’s not common knowledge that an infected person can live a normal and healthy life.
Stigma continues to inform legal, social and cultural attitudes towards sex work and remains a barrier to health, human rights and justice. Developing stigma indicators is one step towards change.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health, Simon Fraser University
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Research scientist, Columbia University
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Medical and Health Humanities, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, The Open University
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Head of Art History, and Arts and Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmaco-economics/pharmaco-epidemiology in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher, University of Johannesburg
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Public Health Medicine Specialist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Research Associate with the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the School of Public Health, University of Cape Town
