Stigmatization of AIDS patients: Disentangling Thai nursing students' attitudes towards HIV/AIDS, drug use, and commercial sex

• Main Authors: Kit Yee Chan, Mark A. Stoové, Luechai Sringernyuang, Daniel D. Reidpath
• Other Authors: Deakin University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine; Psychology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/19824
• Institution: Mahidol University

This paper analyzes the interrelationships between the stigma of HIV/AIDS stigma and the co-stigmas of commercial sex (CS) and injecting drug use (IDU). Students of a Bangkok nursing college (N = 144) were presented with vignettes describing a person varying in the disease diagnoses (AIDS, leukemia,...