Karina Grullon Perez
Adolescents living with HIV may experience stigma (i.e. be subject to discrimination), anticipate stigma (i.e. change thoughts or behaviors to avoid discrimination), and internalize stigma (i.e. think less of themselves because of their HIV serostatus). We hypothesized that adolescents’ self-reports of stigma are associated with treatment outcomes. Contrary to our expectation, there was no association between stigma and virologic treatment outcomes among HIV-infected adolescents on antiretroviral therapy when considering the entire adolescent age spectrum.