Psychopathology and coping in recently diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients [3]
Date
2004
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Health & Medical Publishing Group
Abstract
We thank Dr Singh for raising several issues for
discussion in his letter1 in response to our paper.2 He states that
there is no evidence to support the hypothesis that women
with HIV/AIDS may face greater stigmatisation than men,
emphasises rather social inequality and poverty as risk factors
for HIV infection in women, and recommends the inclusion of
a particular stigma scale. Stigmatisation may well have been
interesting to include, but it was not a primary object of study
in this work, and the validity of the scale recommended by
Singh has not yet been demonstrated in developing world
contexts. Furthermore, we would point out that HIV/AIDS
stigma and gender discrimination are constructs that appear to
have considerable overlap.
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CITATION: Olley, B. O, Seedat, S. & Stein, D. J. 20014. Psychopathology and coping in recently diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients [3]. South African Medical Journal, 94(9):720-722.
The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.za
The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.za
Keywords
Psychology, Pathological, HIV infections