Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: “The kind of discrimination I faced from my neighbours made me regret sharing my condition with them; I could not even share the communal sink,” a Kenyan woman with TB told a UN investigator in November 2009 [1]. Unfortunately, these words are illustrative of a long history of stigmatization in human communities when contagious diseases strike [2-5].
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Authors: Phil Perry, Fred Donini-Lenhoff
Institution: American Medical Association
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W156957417