Paradox of HIV stigma in an integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: Viewpoints of service users and providers

• Soter Ameh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soter Ameh, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

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

  * E-mail: sote_ameh@yahoo.com, sameh@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8449-6423

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• Lucia D’Ambruoso ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soter Ameh, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Centre for Sustainable International Development, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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• Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soter Ameh, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH) Accra, Accra, Ghana

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• Kathleen Kahn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH) Accra, Accra, Ghana, Umea Centre for Global Health Research, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

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• Stephen M. Tollman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH) Accra, Accra, Ghana, Umea Centre for Global Health Research, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

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• Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soter Ameh, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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