Combating Stigma and Health Inequality of Monkeypox: Experience from HIV.
Zhongfang Yang, Xiaoning Liu, Zheng Zhu, Lin Zhang, Shuyu Han, Yanfen Fu, Hongzhou Lu
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Zhongfang Yang: School of Nursing, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. ORCID
Xiaoning Liu: Department of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
Zheng Zhu: School of Nursing, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Lin Zhang: Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Shuyu Han: School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Yanfen Fu: School of Nursing, Dali University, Dali, People's Republic of China. ORCID
Hongzhou Lu: Department of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
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.
