“How can you kiss and touch this child and show affection towards her? What kind of woman are you?”: Provider perspectives on stigma towards native and ethnic minority street-connected youth in the Republic of Georgia

• Shorena Sadzaglishvili ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shorena Sadzaglishvili, Rey Flores, Jane Hereth, Alida Bouris

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shorena_sadzaglishvili@iliauni.edu.ge

  Affiliation Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5469-1893

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• Teona Gotsiridze ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  ¶‡ TG and KL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Ketevan Lekishvili ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  ¶‡ TG and KL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Rey Flores ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shorena Sadzaglishvili, Rey Flores, Jane Hereth, Alida Bouris

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4073-8328

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• Jane Hereth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shorena Sadzaglishvili, Rey Flores, Jane Hereth, Alida Bouris

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Wisconsin Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Alida Bouris

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shorena Sadzaglishvili, Rey Flores, Jane Hereth, Alida Bouris

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2087-3151

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