ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs2012
Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the unity workshop: an internalized stigma reduction intervention for African American women living with HIV.
Article in AIDS patient care and STDs, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01893112 (Reducing HIV Stigma to Improve Health Outcomes for African-American Women), which is not on this map. Cited by 64 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Reducing HIV Stigma to Improve Health Outcomes for African-American Women
Who cites it
64 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Older African Americans and the HIV Care Continuum: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2003-2018.AIDS and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- Social and structural determinants of HIV treatment and care among black women living with HIV infection: a systematic review: 2005-2016.AIDS care · 2018Pooled it
- Psychosocial group interventions to improve psychological well-being in adults living with HIV.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Systematic review of stigma reducing interventions for African/Black diasporic women.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2015Pooled it
- A systematic review of interventions to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination from 2002 to 2013: how far have we come?Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2013Pooled it
- Effects of an intervention on internalized HIV-related stigma for individuals newly entering HIV care.AIDS (London, England) · 2020Trial
- Stigma Reduction Among African American Women With HIV: UNITY Health Study.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Trial
- Feasibility of using an iPod touch device and acceptability of a stigma reduction intervention with HIV-infected women in the Deep South.AIDS and behavior · 2015Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of a stigma reduction intervention for HIV-infected women in the Deep South.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2014Trial
- Current Status of HIV-Stigma Reduction Interventions: A Need to Address the Root Causes at Multiple Levels.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2025Review
- Mental Health and Substance Use Among Black Women Attending STD Clinics in Baltimore: The Role of Overt and Subtle Discrimination.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Interventions and Their Effectiveness to Reduce HIV-Related Stigma Among Women Living With HIV: A Systematic Review Protocol.Health science reports · 2025Article
- The impact of syndemic burden, age, and sexual minority status on internalized HIV stigma among people living with HIV in South Florida.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- "People here live in denial": A qualitative study of the pervasive impact of stigma on asthma diagnosis and care in Kenya and Sudan.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Intervention measures for stigma in HIV patients: a scoping review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Stigma, Discrimination and Other Social-Structural Factors Associated with Barriers to Counselling or Therapy among Women Living with HIV Who have Experienced Violence in Metro Vancouver, Canada.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- HIV Stigma, Health, and Violence: A Longitudinal Study among Adolescent Boys with HIV in Soweto, South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Empowering Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: A Hybrid Online-Offline Intervention to Combat Stigma.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- An Analysis of Approaches to Reduction of HIV Stigma across the World through educational interventions: A Scoping Review.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2024Article
- Lived experiences of people living with HIV and hypertension or diabetes access to care in Ethiopia: a phenomenological study.BMJ open · 2024Article
4 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Observational studies have examined the prevalence and impact of internalized stigma among African American women living with HIV, but there are no intervention studies investigating stigma reduction strategies in this population. Based on qualitative data previously collected, we adapted the International Center for Research on Women's HIV Stigma Toolkit for a domestic population of African American women to be consistent with Corrigan's principles of strategic stigma change. We implemented the intervention, led by an African American woman living with HIV, as a workshop across two afternoons. The participants discussed issues "triggered" by videos produced specifically for this purpose, learned coping mechanisms from each other, and practiced them in role plays with each other. We pilot tested the intervention with two groups of women (total N=24), measuring change in internalized stigma with the Stigma Scale for Chronic Illness before and after workshop participation. Sixty-two percent of the participants self-reported acquiring HIV through heterosexual sexual contact, 17% through intravenous drug use, 4% in utero, and 13% did not know the route of transmission. The intervention was feasible, enthusiastically accepted by the women, and led to decreased stigma from the start of the workshop to the end (p=0.05) and 1 week after (p=0.07) the last session of workshop. Findings suggest the intervention warrants further investigation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.