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‘They Say HIV is a Punishment from God or from Ancestors’: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Assessment of an HIV Stigma Scale for South African Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV-SS)
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Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 90 % of the world’s adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV). HIV-stigma and the resultant fear of being identified as HIV-positive can compromise the survival of these youth by undermining anti-retroviral treatment initiation and adherence. To date, no HIV-stigma measures have been validated for use with ALHIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reports on a two-stage study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Firstly, we conducted a cross-cultural adaptation of an HIV s...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Nuffield Foundation
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Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa
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Oxford University Press
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Leverhulme Trust
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Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Child Indicators Research Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-22
- DOI:
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1874-8988
- ISSN:
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1874-897X
- Source identifiers:
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668775
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- pubs:668775
- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Pantelic et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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