Volume 8, Issue 12

HIV Stigma: A Psychologist’s Viewpoint

In this issue:

In this issue: In this video follow-up interview to last issue’s Stigma and HIV, David Pantalone, PhD, a professor from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a clinical psychologist affiliated with The Fenway Institute, provides a psychologist’s perspective of the mental and physical harms caused by HIV stigma, with advice for both patients and their providers.

Learning objectives:

  • Describe the psychological consequences of stressors and stigma in individuals living with HIV.

  • Discuss the challenges in developing successful stigma reduction interventions in individuals living with HIV.

Author:

David Pantalone, PhD
David Pantalone, PhD

Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston

Affiliated Investigator, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health

Boston, MA

Program Directors:

Ethel D. Weld, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Division of Infectious Diseases
Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
(she/her/hers)

Matthew Spinelli, MD, MAS

Assistant Professor
HIV, ID, and Global Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California
(he/him/his)

Justin Alves, RN, FNP-BC, ACRN, CARN, CNE

Nurse Educator
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
(he/him/his)

Length of activity:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: December 22, 2023
Expiration date: December 21, 2025