HIV, Stigma, and Rates of Infection: A Rumour without Evidence
Open Access
- 31 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (10) , e435
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030435
Abstract
Although HIV-related stigma is often seen as the greatest barrier to controlling the HIV epidemic, this assertion is still only a hypothesis, say Reidpath and Chan.Keywords
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