How persistent stigma and discrimination keep people with visible skin diseases out of jobs: vitiligo in Brazil today

• Luísa Polo Silveira,
• Marlous L. Grijsen,
• Ivonise Follador,
• Gerson Dellatorre

Affiliations

Luísa Polo Silveira

Department of Dermatology, Hospital Santa Casa de Curitiba, Praça Rui Barbosa, 694 - Centro, Curitiba, PR, 80010-030, Brazil; Corresponding author. Praça Rui Barbosa, 694 - Centro, Curitiba, PR, 80010-030, Brazil.

Marlous L. Grijsen

Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya 6, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia

Ivonise Follador

Luz - Clínica de Dermatologia e Fototerapia Ltda., Av. Anita Garibaldi, 1815 - Garibaldi, Salvador, BA, 40170-130, Brazil

Gerson Dellatorre

Department of Dermatology, Hospital Santa Casa de Curitiba, Praça Rui Barbosa, 694 - Centro, Curitiba, PR, 80010-030, Brazil