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Assessing HIV/AIDS Stigma in South India: Validation and Abridgement of the Berger HIV Stigma Scale

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AIDS AND BEHAVIOR, Volume 16 / 2012 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-011-0128-3 L. Jeyaseelan et al. Abstract HIV-related stigma has been associated with depression, poor adherence, and nondisclosure of HIV-posi ...

Last updated on January 20 2012 at 09:45

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Author: Cheryl Overs “What drives continued expansion of the pandemic is not the absence of effective preventative technologies but discrimination, exploitation and repression of certain social group ...

Last updated on December 9 2011 at 08:20

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Gender inequality is a major contributor to men who have sex with men's (MSM) vulnerability to HIV. Understanding the gender dynamics of MSM, as well as their specific sexual identity issues and conce ...

Last updated on November 28 2011 at 18:42


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Yemen: Poverty, lack of education boosting HIV/AIDS - experts

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SANAA - Maha (not her real name), 22, has been a commercial sex worker since she was 17. She told IRIN she and her sister were forced into prostitution to provide food and medical treatment for their ...

Last updated on April 18 2011 at 15:23

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HIV is highly stigmatised in many settings. It was widely assumed that the increasing availability of ART would lead to a reduction of stigma, as the disease became less of a "death sentence". However ...

Last updated on April 11 2011 at 11:14

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KAKAMEGA — HIV could lose its "special status" in Kenya's health system if a new pilot programme integrating HIV care and public healthcare proves successful. Traditionally, public hospitals in Kenya ...

Last updated on March 23 2011 at 14:39


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2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS

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Godsway Shumba

Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, and 10 years since the landmark UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the world will come together to review progress and chart the future course of the ...

Last updated on March 24 2011 at 14:33


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