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People Living with HIV Stigma Index: Asia Pacific Regional Analysis 2011

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This report provides findings from the rollout of the People Living with HIV Stigma Index (PLHIV Stigma Index) in nine countries in Asia and the Pacific (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Myanmar, Pa ...

Last updated on May 24 2012 at 16:03

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This study assessed the correlates of recent HIV testing and HIV/AIDS-related stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Beijing, China. A cross-sectional study ...

Last updated on April 16 2012 at 21:34

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Last updated on April 16 2012 at 21:34

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The current study was designed to develop and evaluate a brief scale measuring perceived public stigma against children affected by HIV/AIDS. The participants include 755 children who have lost one or ...

Last updated on November 17 2011 at 15:24

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This paper outlines a six-country study of institutionalised forms of HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in the Asia-Pacific region. Although recognised as a barrier to disease prevention and treatment, ...

Last updated on November 10 2011 at 16:19

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To examine HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, related behaviors, and sources of HIV/AIDS information among high school-aged students in South Korea. One thousand and seventy-seven students (586 females an ...

Last updated on October 11 2011 at 20:59

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The objective of the study was to examine the interrelationships among HIV-related public and felt stigma, worry of HIV infection, HIV/AIDS knowledge and intention to disclose HIV testing results in a ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 14:02

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Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted to assess HIV related stigmatising beliefs, risk sexual behaviours, and preventive practices among sexually experienced rural to urban migrants aged 18– ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 17:28

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Internationally, stigma prohibits effective HIV/STD identification, prevention, and care. Interviews with 106 persons in an urban center in Eastern China, some know to have engaged in stigmatized risk ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 17:18

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This study examines the impact of HIV-related stigma on families living with HIV/AIDS in China. In-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 people living with HIV/AIDS and with 15 of th ...

Last updated on November 10 2011 at 17:46

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China has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the world with an increase in reported cases of about 30 percent yearly (UNAIDS, 2004). As the epidemic has grown, there have been several studies ...

Last updated on May 26 2011 at 20:31

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HIV-related stigma was examined among 209 employees and owners of stalls in 5 markets in an eastern coastal city in China. Of the participants 53% were women and 47% were men; 100% were Han. Ages rang ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 16:49

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Two longitudinal surveys were carried out in 1996 and 1999 aimed at describing the situations of AIDS-related discrimination in the workplace and evaluating the effectiveness of some social interventi ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 16:45

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Objectives: To examine the level of discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and factors in association with such attitudes. Methods: A population based cross sectional tel ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 16:37

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The stress, needs and quality of life (QoL) of family members of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are critical to explore in Taiwan where home care projects are not available to help the PLWHA fami ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 19:11

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Based on data from a population-based survey conducted in 2003 in a province in southwestern China, we provide data on knowledge about HIV transmission, HIV stigmatizing attitudes, and willingness to ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 18:03

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This article examines the contextual effects of community environment on individual stigmatizing attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS in China. Multilevel logistic regression models are used to analy ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 16:54

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OBJECTIVES: (1) Examine the psychometric properties of two parallel measures of HIV-related stigma (i.e., perceived public stigma and children's personal stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS [P ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 18:06

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Ruili is a small border town between China and Myanmar where drugs and commercial sex are common, and rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV, are high. A qualitative study was car ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 21:05

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Sex workers in China are routinely coercively detained through administrative mechanisms outside of legal procedures, but very little is known about the anthropologic and public health context of thes ...

Last updated on July 14 2011 at 19:30

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The purpose of this study was to identify the variables related to quality of life in the population of individuals living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Taiwan. Purposive sampling was used to identify subj ...

Last updated on July 14 2011 at 19:10

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that HIV/AIDS-related stigma has persisted world-wide for decades. However, studies on the linkage between stigmatizing attitudes towards people living w ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 17:55

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Stigma is a significant barrier to effective control of HIV/AIDS, despite laws to control it. The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with HIV stigma in a rural Chinese community. ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 18:14

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OBJECTIVES: To design and assess HIV and homosexuality related stigma scales in a developing world context. METHODS: A respondent-driven sampling survey was conducted among 351 men who have sex with ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 17:04

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We evaluated an intervention to train physicians in rural China on knowledge of HIV/STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment options, and HIV/STI behavioral risk reduction counseling. This paper reports p ...

Last updated on June 1 2011 at 15:30

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An HIV-related stigma scale for health care workers needs to be multidimensional in that it should encompass attitudes that might be experienced by the general public about people living with HIV/AIDS ...

Last updated on May 31 2011 at 23:09

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We examined how individual and institutional factors in health care settings affected discrimination toward persons with HIV/AIDS. A representative sample of 1101 Chinese service providers was recruit ...

Last updated on May 31 2011 at 21:01

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The purpose of this review paper is to provide information and guidance to those in the health care setting about why it is important to combat HIV-related stigma and how to successfully address its c ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 17:13

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Using a representative sample of 478 doctors, nurses, and lab technicians working with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), a cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the impact of the AIDS epide ...

Last updated on May 31 2011 at 20:54

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BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS related stigma interferes with the provision of appropriate care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Currently, programs to address the stigma approach it as if it occurs ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 16:01

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Despite the rapid increase of HIV infection cases in China, the majority of this population have not yet accessed AIDS-related healthcare services. Most current research in China focuses on HIV preven ...

Last updated on May 31 2011 at 16:34

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This paper presents key findings of a situational analysis of institutional and structural levels of HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in Beijing, China, with a focus on the area of health care. Initial ...

Last updated on May 26 2011 at 20:52

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This study assessed the effect of a brief intervention aimed at reducing HIV-related stigma among service providers in China. From December 2005 to June 2006, 138 service providers from four county ho ...

Last updated on May 26 2011 at 20:34

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Although China’s government is rapidly expanding access to antiretroviral therapy, little is known about barriers to adherence among Chinese HIV-infected patients, particularly among injection drug us ...

Last updated on April 19 2011 at 20:02

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Increasing HIV knowledge is a focus of many HIV education and prevention efforts. While the bi-variate relationship of HIV serostatus disclosure with HIV-related knowledge and stigma has been reported ...

Last updated on May 24 2011 at 16:50

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BACKGROUND: The National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative HIV/Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Trial provided a unique opportunity to test whether, with the community-based diffusion of ...

Last updated on May 12 2011 at 20:47

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Previous research has documented the deleterious impact of homosexuality stigma on HIV sexual risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) and the vulnerability of this group in China for HIV a ...

Last updated on May 12 2011 at 20:40

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Studies of HIV stigma in China are becoming more prevalent, but these studies have seldom involved direct cross-cultural comparisons. Moreover, although researchers consider employers to be a key powe ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 17:12

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Injecting drug use has now been documented in 135 countries, 110 of which also report HIV transmission through contaminated needles, syringes and other injecting equipment. Worldwide 5 to 10 million p ...

Last updated on April 6 2011 at 18:50

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International health experts agree that China is on the verge of an AIDS crisis. In response, the Chinese government initiated the ‘‘Four Frees and One Care’’ policy in 2003 to decrease economic barri ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 16:24

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This cross-sectional study described the level of stigma reported by people living with HIV (PLWH) in south central China and identified factors associated with the individuals' perceptions of stigma. ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 17:01

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This paper intends to investigate the connection between HIV transmission knowledge and prejudicial attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS (PWAs), with an emphasis on exploring the pattern of cognitiv ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 18:06

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The latest data indicate that between 540,000 and 760,000 people are infected with HIV in China. Although minority nationalities represent 8.1% of China's total population, they account for more than ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 15:20

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We examined the relationships between a region's HIV prevalence and HIV-related knowledge, perceived risk of HIV infection, perceived institutional support for HIV care, and avoidance attitude toward ...

Last updated on June 28 2012 at 19:11

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