ArticleSociology of health & illness2016
HIV stigma and the experiences of young men with voluntary and routine HIV testing.
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- Social-Cognitive and Identity-Related Factors Promoting Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Uptake Among Bisexual Men.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Intersectional stigma among Latino MSM and HIV prevention: barriers to HIV prevention and strategies to overcome the barriers.AIDS care · 2025Article
- HIV-related stigma among young men who have sex with men in HIV care in Plateau State Nigeria.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Addressing HIV Misconceptions among Heterosexual Black Men and Communities in Ontario.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The impact of stigma on HIV testing decisions for gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Understanding barriers and facilitators to HIV testing in Canada from 2009-2019: A systematic mixed studies review.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2021Article
- Factors Affecting HIV Testing among Youth in Kenya.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- HIV leadership programming attendance is associated with PrEP and PEP awareness among young, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada.BMC public health · 2019Observational
- Places and people: the perceptions of men who have sex with men concerning STI testing: a qualitative study.Sexually transmitted infections · 2018Article
- Perceived Devaluation and STI Testing Uptake among a Cohort of Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting.Archives of sexual behavior · 2017Article
- Are All Gay Men at Risk of Developing HIV/AIDS? Why China's Mass HIV Testing Has Majorly Targeted Gay Men in the Era of Biomedicalization.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
As routine HIV testing approaches are implemented to enhance participation rates in HIV testing, it is often widely believed that these approaches are socially and ethically justifiable given the underlying assumption that these practices will result in the widespread reduction of HIV-related stigma. Nonetheless, a variety of empirical and theoretical gaps on how HIV testing practices may impact on HIV stigma remain, raising questions about the social underpinnings of the public health rationale. We draw on 50 interviews with 18-24 year-old men to determine how HIV-related stigma is experienced differentially across subgroups of young men in relation to both voluntary and routine testing practices. The men's experiences with routine testing highlight how (mis)interpretations of universal, routine testing practices may serve to (unintentionally) burden disadvantaged subgroups of men; however, when these practices are adequately explicated, the universal dimension of a routine offer greatly diminished these concerns. These findings also show that, under the right conditions, a routine offer can provide transformative opportunities for individuals to reconceptualise their expectations over HIV and HIV-related stigma.
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