Persistent HIV-related stigma in rural Uganda during a period of increasing HIV incidence despite treatment expansion.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Programme implementers have argued that the increasing availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) will reduce the stigma of HIV. We analyzed data from Uganda to assess how HIV-related stigma has changed during a period of ART expansion.

Design

Serial cross-sectional surveys.

Methods

We analyzed data from the Uganda AIDS Rural Treatment Outcomes study during 2007-2012 to estimate trends in internalized stigma among people living with HIV (PLHIV) at the time of treatment initiation. We analyzed data from the Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys from 2006 to 2011 to estimate trends in stigmatizing attitudes and anticipated stigma in the general population. We fitted regression models adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics, with year of data collection

SUBMITTER: Chan BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4286463 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature