Health-care stigma has profound impacts on health outcomes through reducing health-care uptake, disrupting linkage to and retention in care, and lowering treatment initiation and adherence. Appropriate tools and approaches must be utilized to reduce health-care stigma and to improve health-care quality, engagement and health outcomes for communities at large.
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Logie, C.H., Nyblade, L. Recognizing and responding to stigma-related barriers in health care. Nat Rev Dis Primers 10, 70 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-024-00554-6
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