HIV stigma continues to act as a barrier to HIV care in South Africa, necessitating further research on the intersections of socioeconomic factors and the anticipation and expression of stigma surrounding HIV. We measured the prevalence of HIV-related stigma and evaluated factors associated with ...
UNAIDS estimates that the number of people who were newly infected with HIV per year in Latin America remained at around 100 000 per year over the past decade, but that the proportion of infections in people aged 50 years or older increased from 6·6% to 8·6% (table).43 In Peru, ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: html_title Hope, involvement and vision: reflections on positive women's activism around HIV /html_title Jo Manchester (bio) Introduction AIDS has been equate... J Manchester - 《Transformation Critical Perspectives on Southern A...
in society concerning leprosy may cause persons affected to develop so-called internalized stigma. This may cause people to self-isolate and refrain from social participation out of fear of what might happen. Stigma has a severe impact on the mental health of those stigmatized (Tsutsumi et al.,...
Our findings complement and extend the existing literature on the relations between stigmatized identities, psychological distress, and physical health problems, particularly regarding women who have accessed abortion. They also indicate that those involved in policy-making and activism around reproductive ...
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Project Accept, a four-country HIV prevention trial in Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa) and northern Thailand. A household probability sample of 14,203 participants completed a survey including a scale measuring HIV/AIDS-related ...
Social norms around condom use and safe sex as well as HIV/AIDS stigma are used to identify persons at higher risk for HIV. These measures have been developed and tested in a variety of settings and populations. While efforts have been undertaken to develop context specific measures of these ...
In 1998, Gugu Dhlamini was stoned and beaten to death in South Africa by people from her township after speaking openly about her HIV status. Her death was largely due to ignorance and prejudice, and the stigma attached to HIV infection. While the idea that this could happen in the UK ma...
Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P)—a condition associated with speech, hearing, feeding, and dental problems, as well as anomalies of the bone and soft tissue around the mouth—is a common birth defect around the globe. The prevalence of this condition varies widely across differ...
Health care providers are therefore often guilty of treatment stigma [23] of PWMI. With the decentralization of mental health care and its integration into primary health care services in South Africa [25], many general health care providers who have not been exposed to patients with mental diso...