Sohini Sengupta

TL;DR: Future studies to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma could improve by designing interventions that pay greater attention to internal validity, use validated HIV/ AIDS stigma instruments, and achieve both statistical and public health significance.

TL;DR: The authors propose the use of community advisory boards, which can facilitate research by providing advice about the informed consent process and the design and implementation of research protocols, which could help reduce the number of individual informed consent lapses, benefiting study participants and the scientific integrity of the research in question.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed scales to measure tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS stigma in a developing world context, using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, internal consistency, construct validity, test-retest reliability and standardized summary scores.

TL;DR: Physicians and scientists conducting preventive HIV vaccine trials need to address community perceptions of risks and provide information about the research if trial enrollment is to be diverse and successful.

TL;DR: Interventions to reduce stigma and promote social support at the patient, household, community, and health care system levels should be part of future efforts in the control of TB in Thailand.