ArticleHIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.)2019
Prevalence And Associated Factors Of Enacted, Internalized And Anticipated Stigma Among People Living With HIV In South Africa: Results Of The First National Survey.
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- Community-based interventions against HIV-related stigma: a systematic review of evidence in Sub-Saharan Africa.Systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
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- Multi-level experiences of HIV-related stigma among people living with HIV: an institution-based qualitative study.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Scoping review of HIV-related intersectional stigma among sexual and gender minorities in sub-Saharan Africa.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Blood pressure changes during tenofovir-based antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV in Lilongwe, Malawi: results from the prospective LighTen Cohort Study.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2023Article
- HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination in Health Care and Health-related Quality of Life among People Living with HIV in England and Wales: A Latent Class Analysis.Stigma and health · 2023Article
- Assessing the association of stigma and HIV service and prevention uptake among men who have sex with men and transgender women in South Africa.AIDS care · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis paper reports on the first national implementation of the "People Living with HIV (PLHIV) Stigma Index" in South Africa. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and correlates of HIV-related stigma in a large sample of PLHIV in South Africa.
methodsThis cross-sectional survey interviewed 10,473 PLHIV 15 years and older with the PLHIV Stigma Index in two districts per province (N=9) in South Africa in 2014.
resultsThe two most common enacted HIV-related stigma items were "being gossiped about" (20.6%) and "experienced discrimination" (15.1%); internalized stigma was "blaming oneself" (30.5%) and ashamed (28.7%); avoidance due to internalized stigma was "decided not to have (more) children" (32.4%) and "decided not to get married" (14.9%), and the two most endorsed anticipated stigma were "being gossiped about" (28.6%) and not want to be sexually intimate (21.1%) Various sociodemographic factors, such as younger age, being female, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and lower wealth status, and health-related variables, such as poorer self-rated health status, having a physical disability, and not being a member of an HIV support group, were identified as associated with overall HIV-related stigma as well as several HIV-related stigma sub-scales.
conclusionThe majority of PLHIV had overall HIV-related stigma, almost half had internalized, or anticipated HIV-related stigma and a minority had enacted HIV-related stigma. Findings can be used to guide intervention programs to reduce HIV-related stigma in South Africa.
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