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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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- 10.1007/s12187-016-9428-5
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- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
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- Child Indicators Research Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-22
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1874-8988
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1874-897X
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pubs:668775
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uri:65b405b9-6dbb-4e1f-819b-c83ffc26fc31
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- Pantelic et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © 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.
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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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