DISCRIMINATION in medical careBackground. High levels of human HIV and tuberculosis (TB) stigma have been reported among healthcare workers (HCWs). Methods. We compared HIV and TB stigma scores reported by nursing students and ward staff from hospitals across India. Transmission worr...
Reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings: a systematic review of guidelines, tools, standards of practice, best practices, con... Reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings: a systematic review of guidelines, tools, standards of practice, best ...
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HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination among health care professionals is one of the most important factors of this disease expansion. This study aimed to assess the stigmatized attitude among health care providers toward people living with HIV (PLHIV) at Tanta University Hospitals. The study is...
Objective: HIV/AIDS has been recently increasingly observed in developing countries including Egypt. This study aimed to explore stigma and discrimination attitudes of health care providers (HCPs) in Egypt, as elimination of stigma in healthcare settings is a priority to improve case detection and ma...
Advances in health and technology have reduced HIV to a more manageable communicable disease. Yet, stigma and discrimination against people with HIV remain critical barriers to ending the pandemic by 2030. Due to limited literature on stigma and discrimi
The Stigma & Discrimination Forums are a global educational series of highly interactive half-day discussions on strategies to reduce stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV. The program targets all relevant stakeholders such as healthcare providers, community advocates, and ...
Whilst stigma and discrimination feature large in our wider societies, we tend not to regard healthcare settings as places where discrimination occurs. This chapter provides an overview of stigma and social exclusion within healthcare settings and how these experiences can arise, be maintained and ...
Stigma and discrimination towards people with mental health conditions by their communities are common worldwide. This can result in a range of negative outcomes for affected persons, including poor access to health care. However, evidence is still patchy from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs...
The provision of effective health care to people with HIV and those from usually marginalised backgrounds, such as drug users and sex workers is a growing concern in Nepal, because these populations often do not seek health care, as willingly as the gene