Women living with HIV (WLWH) experience depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress
symptoms at higher rates than their male counterparts and more often than HIV-unaffected …

Loneliness has been defined as an agonizing encounter, experienced when the need for
human intimacy is not met adequately, or when a person's social network does not match …

Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is closely associated with
physical and mental health problems; however, little is known about the severity of stigma …

We present a conceptual framework that highlights how unique dimensions of individual-
level HIV-related stigma (perceived community stigma, experienced stigma, internalized …

Few researchers have attempted to examine the mechanisms through which HIV-related
stigma in the community is processed and experienced at an individual level by people …

Abstract In 2019, the National Institutes of Health combined the Multicenter AIDS Cohort
Study (MACS) and the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) into the MACS/WIHS …

Abstract The Southern United States has been disproportionately affected by HIV diagnoses
and mortality. To inform efforts to effectively address HIV in the South, this manuscript …

Background There is some evidence that loneliness may be linked to poorer health
behaviours. Despite this, there has been little research to date on the relationship between …

Societal stigmatization of HIV/AIDS due to assumptions about transmission and associated
behaviors plays a substantial role in the psychosocial well-being of people living with this …

Objective: We investigated whether internalized HIV-related stigma predicts adherence to
antiretroviral therapy (ART) longitudinally in women living with HIV in the United States, and …