Infection and Drug Resistance (Oct 2022)

Combating Stigma and Health Inequality of Monkeypox: Experience from HIV

  • Yang Z,
  • Liu X,
  • Zhu Z,
  • Zhang L,
  • Han S,
  • Fu Y,
  • Lu H

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 15
pp. 5941 – 5943

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Zhongfang Yang,1– 3,* Xiaoning Liu,4,5,* Zheng Zhu,1,3,6 Lin Zhang,7 Shuyu Han,8 Yanfen Fu,9 Hongzhou Lu4 1School of Nursing, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 3Fudan University Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing: A Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China; 5National Heart & Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; 6NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, USA; 7Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 8School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 9School of Nursing, Dali University, Dali, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zheng Zhu, School of Nursing, Fudan University, 305 Fenglin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 21-6443 0093, Email [email protected] Hongzhou Lu, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, 518112, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]: With Western Pacific Region reporting more imported cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern in July. Currently, we are now at the beginning of forming stigmatization toward monkeypox. Based on the experience of combating HIV stigmatization for over 30 years, in this comment, we proposed measures based on the three stages of the stigma formation process. We believe the paper may be of particular interest to the readers of your journal as it offered implications for both healthcare professionals and researchers in Western Pacific Region.Keywords: infectious disease, stigmatization, global public health, measures

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