Stigmatization People Living with HIV AIDS (PLWHA)

Abstract

People with HIV AIDS (PLWHA) often experience stigma, the stigma that occurs among them is verbalstatement and the act of keeping PLWHA away from social activities, stigma can disrupt the social roleof PLWHA. Stigma can come from anyone including health workers. PLWHA need actions to eliminatethe stigma that occurs,so that PLWHA can live as other individuals without getting stigma. The purposeof the review literature is to identify the forms and sources of stigma that occur in PLWHA and effortsto eliminate stigma against PLWHA. The author finds journals that are relevant to the problem by usingstigma keywords, health workers, HIV AIDS, and people with HIV AIDS. Journals were obtained fromthe Science Direct, Proquest, SagePub, and Scopus databases with 54 journals and 14 journals fulfillingthe criteria for analysis.Journal analysis states that various efforts have been made to solve the problem ofstigma against PLWHA, this effort includes the entry of HIV into health care work programs, the sourceof stigma from health workers requires special attention, because health workers should be promotersto eliminate stigma,necessary increasing the knowledge and expertise of health workers in handling andtreating PLWHA. So that officers can become promoters in eliminating stigma against PLWHA