Barriers include stigma, discrimination, lack of adequate healthcare and rehabilitation services, and inaccessible transport, buildings and information.
Sex workers around the world face diverse challenges: stigma, discrimination, violence – including state violence – harassment, criminalisation, isolation, marginalisation and a lack of adequate health services.
It is hard to imagine more incentive to lose weight than the intense stigma, discrimination, street harassment and systemic social exclusion that fat people already face.
Gay people subjected to heightened stigma, discrimination and even persecution will be far less likely to access whatever HIV treatment, care and support might be available.
The result is often further stigma, discrimination and social exclusion.
The findings revealed that stigma, discrimination, depression, and alcohol use negatively affected patients' ART adherence levels.
Stigma, discrimination, and imputations of difference and inferiority are all parts of the social experience of disability.
For one thing, most cases of HIV infection are caused by sexual risk behaviors, and for another, even today, seropositive individuals are still the object of stigma, discrimination, and marginalization by society (De Santis et al., 2013).
HIV follows poverty, stigma, discrimination, criminalization and inequity.
Countless cases go unreported due to stigma, discrimination and fear of further violence.
Stigma, discrimination, abuse and violence are part of my daily life.
