Stigma, Structural Vulnerability, and "What Matters Most" Among Women Living With HIV in Botswana, 2017

Lawrence H Yang1, Ohemaa B Poku1, Supriya Misra1

  • 1Lawrence H. Yang is with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY. Ohemaa B. Poku is with the Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Supriya Misra is with San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Haitisha T. Mehta is with the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. Shathani Rampa is with the Department of Psychology, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. Marlene M. Eisenberg and Michael B. Blank are with the Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Lyla S. Yang is with the Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University. Thi Xuan Dai Cao is with the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Lilo I. Blank is with the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Timothy D. Becker is with the Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Bruce G. Link is with the Department of Sociology, University of California Riverside. Patlo Entaile is with the Botswana‒UPenn Partnership, Gaborone. Philip R. Opondo is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Botswana. Tonya Arscott-Mills is with the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Ari R. Ho-Foster is with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana.

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