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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Experiences of stigma

Many people have fears, prejudices or negative attitudes about HIV. Stigma can result in people living with HIV being rejected, gossiped about and excluded from social activities. See also our sections on Combatting stigma and Discrimination and the law.

Human rights

Tanzania: Police Abuse, Torture, Impede HIV Services

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Human Rights Watch Health
19 June 2013
Behaviour change interventions

South Africa: Anal sex stigma leads to problems in HIV fight

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Independent Online
13 June 2013
Activism & civil society

Out of the Shadows: Paul Semugoma

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Poz
7 June 2013
Human rights

Right to health, right to life: HIV and human rights in Europe

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UNAIDS
3 June 2013
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Uganda: Need To Address Stigma Among HIV Positive Mothers

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AllAfrica
31 May 2013
Experiences of stigma

The Sound of Stigma

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Poz
14 May 2013
Travel

UZBEKISTAN: Uzbeks Required to Produce STD, Drugs Certificates to Travel Abroad

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Uznews
8 May 2013
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

News
1 May 2013
Experiences of stigma

South Africa: 'He said sex with a virgin could cure HIV'

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Independent Online
26 April 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Young black Brooklyn males struggling with sexual identify fuel Brooklyn HIV crisis

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NY Daily News
25 April 2013
Infant feeding

For African women in the UK, formula feeding has a high social and personal cost

News
23 April 2013
Adherence

Some barriers to adherence for black African people in London are culturally specific

News
23 April 2013
History of HIV & AIDS

AIDS 'Patient Zero' was a publicity strategy, scholar writes

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Philly.com
22 April 2013
Experiences of stigma

Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV

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RH Reality Check
22 April 2013
History of HIV & AIDS

The Crime of Being Positive: the development of HIV laws in the 1980s

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The Advocate
2 April 2013
HIV & criminal law

A Spectacle of Stigma: A First-hand Account of a Canadian Criminal HIV Exposure Trial

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AIDS Action Now
2 April 2013
Transmission & prevention

Canadians' awareness, attitudes, knowledge and behaviours related to HIV and hepatitis C

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CATIE
28 March 2013
Sexual health

The rise of online STI dating

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BBC Health
28 March 2013
Telling people you have HIV

I'm Sorry My HIV Offends You

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Huffington Post
17 March 2013
Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

HIV and the Power of Escape

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Huffington Post
10 March 2013
Experiences of stigma

HIV positive jobseeker 'humiliated' by Kent job centre staff

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BBC News
20 February 2013
Experiences of stigma

The Increasingly Strange Case of Uncle Poodle

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My Fabulous Disease
19 February 2013
Experiences of stigma

HIV man loses restaurant loan 'for own protection'

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The Local.de
15 February 2013
PrEP

That Barebacking Thief-Whore: PrEP and Responsibility

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Frontiers LA
8 February 2013