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.
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Articles on HIV stigma
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Contemporary artists from Judy Chicago to Stelarc have made art from blood. And an exhibition at Melbourne’s new Science Gallery addresses our ambivalent attitudes to this life-giving fluid.
The stories of HIV positive women in Tanzania often go unheard outside the communities in which they live.
Many people with moderate to severe chronic pain find it difficult to move around. By contrast, HIV-positive people who had chronic pain are still active.
In the the wake of the Orlando massacre, many people directly affected by this homophobic hate crime are prevented from offering help due to homophobic regulations.
Creating HIV services at primary health-care centres in Nigeria may improve the uptake of antiretrovirals, but it won’t tackle the issue of stigma.
Decades on, is HIV still a taboo subject?
That Charlie Sheen would have to pay millions of dollars to keep his HIV status private is indicative of the level of stigma still attached to it.
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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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, The Open University
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Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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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
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
