What is it about?
Usually it is assumed that city dwellers think more openly and progressively than country dwellers. Accordingly, it would be assumed that people living with HIV in the countryside would experience more stigma and be more likely to be discriminated against than in the city. A comparison of villages and a neighborhood in the city showed the opposite picture.
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Why is it important?
It counteracts prejudices about the rural population, which proved to be much more integrated than the urban dwellers.
Perspectives
The article presents a dialactic conception according to which stigma and discrimination should only be considered together.
PhD Klaus Geiselhart
Institute of Geography FAU
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This page is a summary of: Stigma and discrimination - An integrative perspective. Spatial disparities and their impact on the introduction of an antiretroviral therapy scheme for HIV and AIDS treatment in Botswana, Erdkunde, January 2010, Erdkunde,
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2010.01.03.
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