Combating Stigma and Health Inequality of Monkeypox: Experience from HIV

Zhongfang Yang; Xiaoning Liu; Zheng Zhu; Lin Zhang; Shuyu Han; Yanfen Fu; Hongzhou Lu

doi:10.2147/IDR.S383471

Combating Stigma and Health Inequality of Monkeypox: Experience from HIV

Infect Drug Resist. 2022 Oct 14:15:5941-5943. doi: 10.2147/IDR.S383471. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zhongfang Yang^#^{1

2

3}, Xiaoning Liu^#^{4

5}, Zheng Zhu^{1

3

6}, Lin Zhang⁷, Shuyu Han⁸, Yanfen Fu⁹, Hongzhou Lu⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Nursing, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
² Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
³ Fudan University Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing: A Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
⁵ National Heart & Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁶ NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
⁸ School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
⁹ School of Nursing, Dali University, Dali, People's Republic of China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: global public health; infectious disease; measures; stigmatization.