tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:"Combating HIV stigma in health care settings: what works?"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Combating HIV stigma in health care settings: what works? | Journal of the International AIDS Society Review Combating HIV stigma in health care settings what works Laura Nyblade Anne Stangl Ellen Weiss and Kim Ashburn BioMed Central Open Access Address International Center for Research on Women Washington DC USA Email Laura Nyblade - lnyblade@ Anne Stangl - astangl@ Ellen Weiss - eweiss@ Kim Ashburn - kashburn@ Corresponding author Published 6 August 2009 Received 31 March 2009 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2009 12 15 doi 1758-2652-12-15 Accepted 6 August 2009 This article is available from http content l2 l l5 2009 Nyblade et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract 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 causes and consequences within health facilities. Research shows that stigma and discrimination in the health care setting and elsewhere contributes to keeping people including health workers from accessing HIV prevention care and treatment services and adopting key preventive behaviours. Studies from different parts of the world reveal that there are three main immediately actionable causes of HIV-related stigma in health facilities lack of awareness among health workers of what stigma looks like and why it is damaging fear of casual contact stemming from incomplete knowledge about HIV transmission and the association of HIV with improper or immoral behaviour. To combat stigma in health facilities interventions must focus on the individual environmental and policy levels. The paper argues that reducing stigma by working at all three .