“It becomes more difficult when people don’t empathize with us”: COVID-19-related stigmatization experienced by survivors in Nepal

• Buna Bhandari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Buna Bhandari, Poshan Thapa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: buna.bhandari@gmail.com

  Affiliations Central Department of Public Health, Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal, Dwyer School of Health Sciences, Indiana University South Bend, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0102-8844

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• Poshan Thapa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Buna Bhandari, Poshan Thapa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

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• Amit Timilsina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Community Development Centre, IPAS, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rajiv Ranjan Karn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Research, Biratnagar Eye Hospital, Biratnagar, Nepal

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• Haider Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Division, Biratnagar Metropolitan, Biratnagar, Nepal

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• Ashley Hagaman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Social and Behavioural Sciences Department, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Archana Shrestha

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

  Affiliation Community Health Department, Kathmandu University Dhulikhel Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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