Teenagers with HIV in childcare facilities have to deal with the challenges of adolescence
while living with the disease.
Articles on HIV stigma
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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.
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 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 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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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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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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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD Student in Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, The Open University
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Lecturer in the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria
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Public Health Medicine Specialist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Programme Development Manager | Doctoral Scholar | Associate Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
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PhD Candidate in Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere 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