Lifting lockdown policies: A critical moment for COVID-19 stigma

JR Hargreaves, CH Logie - Global public health, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 'lockdown'policies may have unintended consequences for
individuals, households and country economies. Hence lockdown may be unsustainable …

COVID-19 in LMICs: The need to place stigma front and centre to its response

K Roelen, C Ackley, P Boyce, N Farina… - The European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented health, economic and societal impacts across the
world, including many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The pandemic and its …

[HTML][HTML] Stigma and COVID‐19 crisis: A wake‐up call

P Peprah, RM Gyasi - The International journal of health planning …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To the Editor Public health emergencies in times of epidemics and the effects of contagion
mitigation strategies such as emergency lockdown may cause intense fear and anxiety …

How do we balance tensions between COVID-19 public health responses and stigma mitigation? Learning from HIV research

CH Logie, JM Turan - AIDS and Behavior, 2020 - Springer
Sontag's quotation above from 'AIDS and its metaphors'[1] reminds us to expose, and
disengage from, constructions of illness that propagate fear. We are called to address the …

Pandemic lockdown, healthcare policies and human rights: integrating opposed views on COVID-19 public health mitigation measures

A Burlacu, R Crisan-Dabija, A Covic, C Raiu, I Mavrichi… - 2020 - rua.ua.es
The issue of the COVID-19 pandemic occupies the agenda of the whole world. The pivot of
this pandemic is a crucial element that has become almost as important as the virus itself …

Social stigma: the hidden threat of COVID-19

AS Abdelhafiz, M Alorabi - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 infection has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease are threatened by the appearance of disease …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons from HIV to guide COVID-19 responses in the Central African Republic

P Somse, PM Eba - Health and human rights, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Almost 40 years ago, the Central African Republic, like other countries in Africa and around
the world, was confronted with the HIV pandemic that would shake the human, social, and …

[PDF][PDF] Focused protection: The middle ground between lockdowns and “let it rip”

J Bhattacharya, S Gupta, M Kulldorff - 2021 - gbdeclaration.org
Both COVID-19 itself and the lockdown policy reactions have had enormous adverse
consequences for patients in the US and around the world. While the harm from COVID-19 …

COVID-19: Stigma, discrimination, and the blame game

A Kumar, KR Nayar - International Journal of Mental Health, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has social, psychological, mental health consequences and
manifestations that require adequate attention from governments and policymakers. As …

Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with COVID-19: early stage pandemic rapid review and practical recommendations

PC Gronholm, M Nosé, WH Van Brakel… - Epidemiology and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
AimsTo develop recommendations for strategies and interventions to reduce stigma and
discrimination related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), through reviewing and …