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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

Many Chinese expressed their disapproval of the many untrusted sources of information online while demonstrating a high level of trust towards the central government. Shaanxi, Xi’an, China: Shaanxi Normal University; 2018. Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak. Doctorate [dissertation].

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Episode 120: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 1 – Racism, Police Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Pearls Defining Structural Racism Structural racism is a term that acknowledges that racism is perpetuated beyond individual interactions and interpersonal racism, but is present in the systems and policies that govern our everyday lives. N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31130-9.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.