Stigma in health facilities: why it matters and how we can change it

Stigma in health facilities undermines diagnosis, treatment, and successful health outcomes. Addressing stigma is fundamental to delivering quality healthcare and achieving optimal health. This correspondence article seeks to assess how developments over the past 5 years have contributed to the state of programmatic knowledge-both approaches and methods-regarding interventions to reduce stigma in health facilities, and explores the potential to concurrently address multiple health condition stigmas. It is supported by findings from a systematic review of published articles indexed in PubMed, Psychinfo and Web of Science, and in the United States Agency for International Development's Development Experience…

• RI
  RTI International
• CN
  Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
• FI
  Fogarty International Center
• FN
  Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico