HIV This Week

Meta-analysis of health and demographic correlates of stigma towards people living with HIV.

Logie C, Gadalla TM. AIDS Care. 2009 2:742-53.

“Just like fever”: a qualitative study on the impact of antiretroviral provision on the normalisation of HIV in rural Tanzania and its implications for prevention.

Roura M, Wringe A, Busza J, Nhandi B, Mbata D, Zaba B, Urassa M. BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2009;9:22.

Babalola S, Fatusi A, Anyanti J. Media saturation, communication exposure and HIV stigma in Nigeria. Soc Sci Med. 2009;68:1513-1520.

Wong LH, Rooyen HV, Modiba P, Richter L, Gray G, McIntyre JA, Schetter CD, Coates T. Test and Tell: Correlates and Consequences of Testing and Disclosure of HIV Status in South Africa (HPTN 043 Project Accept). J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009;50(2):215-22.

Roura M, Urassa M, Busza J, Mbata D, Wringe A, Zaba B. Scaling up stigma? The effects of antiretroviral roll-out on stigma and HIV testing. Early evidence from rural Tanzania. Sex Transm Infect. 2008. [Epub ahead of print]

Abdool Karim Q, Meyeer-Weitz A, Mboyi L, Carrara H, Mahlase G, Frohlich JA, & Abdool Karim SS. The influence of AIDS stigma and discrimination and social cohesion on HIV testing and willingness to disclose HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa Global Public Health . 2008; 3(4):351 - 365.

Mahajan AP, Sayles JN, Patel VA, Remien RH, Sawires SR, Ortiz DJ, Szekeres G, Coates TJ. Stigma in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a review of the literature and recommendations for the way forward. AIDS. 2008 Aug;22 Suppl 2:S67-79.

Ghabili K, Shoja MM, Kamran P. The Iranian female high school students’ attitude towards people with HIV/AIDS: a cross-sectional study. AIDS Res Ther. 2008 Jul 22;5:15.

Sebert Kuhlmann AK, Kraft JM, Galavotti C, Creek TL, Mooki M, Ntumy R. Radio role models for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and HIV testing among pregnant women in Botswana. Health Promot Int. 2008 Apr 11 [Epub ahead of print]

Bastien S, Sango W, Mnyika KS, Masatu MC, Klepp KI. Changes in exposure to information, communication and knowledge about AIDS among school children in Northern Tanzania, 1992-2005. AIDS Care. 2008;20(3):382-7.