Associations between stigmatization toward HIV-related vulnerable groups and similar attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS: Branches of the same tree?

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1230-1240

  Lau, J T F ^a,b   Choi, K C ^a   Tsui, H Y ^a   Su, X ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; STIGMA; TEACHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC OPINION; STEREOTYPING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 37049001015     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540120701402848     Document Type: Article

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