Longer wait times for people living with HIV, or attending those people last
But subtle stigma can be harder to identify, and could look like this:
Senior staff passing off care of people living with HIV to junior staff
Avoidance behaviors
that can lead to unintentional breaches in confidentiality
such as wearing gloves only when treating people living with HIV
Examples
of stigma
So what might stigma in a health care setting look like?
Speaking with Devex, Laura Nyblade, an internationally-recognized expert on stigma and discrimination in the context of public health, outlined how to identify stigma, and some of the evidence-based solutions that help to reduce it.
Sometimes stigma is more overt — for example verbal abuse, or outright denial of care.
