Doing battle with “the monster”: How high-risk heterosexuals experience and successfully manage HIV stigma as a barrier to HIV testing

Doing battle with “the monster”: How high-risk heterosexuals experience and successfully manage HIV stigma as a barrier to HIV testing

Abstract Background Annual HIV testing is recommended for populations at-risk for HIV in the United States, including heterosexuals geographically connected to urban high-risk areas (HRA) with elevated rates of HIV prevalence and poverty, who are primarily African American/Black or Hispanic. Yet thi...

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Main Authors: Marya Gwadz, Noelle R. Leonard, Sylvie Honig, Robert Freeman, Alexandra Kutnick, Amanda S. Ritchie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Subjects:
Qualitative
Stigma
Structural
Intersectionality
HIV testing
Heterosexual
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-018-0761-9

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