Background HIV infection rates are increasing among marginalized women in Ontario,
Canada. HIV-related stigma, a principal factor contributing to the global HIV epidemic, interacts …

Sontag’s quotation above from ‘AIDS and its metaphors’[1] reminds us to expose, and
disengage from, constructions of illness that propagate fear. We are called to address the fear of …

White privilege constructs whiteness as normative and central to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
queer (LGBQ) identities and is reproduced through social norms, media representations, …

Stigma is a well-documented barrier to health seeking behavior, engagement in care and
adherence to treatment across a range of health conditions globally. In order to halt the …

Background Lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender (LBQT) women living with HIV have
been described as invisible, ignored, neglected and understudied [1–4]. Lesbian, bisexual …

… Carmen H Logie9, … our recent review of qualitative research,11 and further builds on the
work of Logie and Gadalla (2009) by including a large number of recent studies from a wider …

The theory of syndemics has received increasing attention in clinical medicine since the
onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the synergistic interactions of the disease with pre-…

Background Social and structural factors are now well accepted as determinants of HIV
vulnerabilities. These factors are representative of social, economic, organizational and political …

Background Stigma and discrimination harm the wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) people and contribute to migration from contexts of sexual persecution and …

Background ‘Intersectional stigma’ is a concept that has emerged to characterize the
convergence of multiple stigmatized identities within a person or group, and to address their joint …