HIV/AIDS stigma at the workplace: Exploratory findings from Pakistan
HIV/AIDS stigma at the workplace: Exploratory findings from Pakistan
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DOI：
10.1080/17290376.2011.9724998
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Bashir, Sajid
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作者：
Bashir, Sajid
艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者（PLHA）在社会上受到歧视。他们被贬低价值，被视为被遗弃者，因为他们获得教育、治疗和住房的机会较少，在组织背景下，他们获得的选择、晋升和收入机会也较少。发达国家对这一现象进行了广泛的研究，但涉及巴基斯坦等不发达国家情况的文献有限，巴基斯坦也面临着艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的蔓延。有一些群体谁是携带疾病，但所面临的问题，PLHA在不同的组织雇用很少被分析。工作场所的耻辱感会产生一些负面后果。本研究考虑了两个这样的结果之间的污名化PLHA。这些结果是组织犬儒主义和违反心理契约。调查问卷被用来收集174 PLHA样本的数据，有工作经验后，确定的流行病，在巴基斯坦各地的不同组织工作。这些PLHA是通过在巴基斯坦开展活动以控制艾滋病毒/艾滋病的一些政府/非政府组织的分散记录确定和招募的。研究结果扩展了有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化的知识，表明PLHA受到污名化，这与违反心理契约和组织犬儒主义显著相关。政府和组织层面也需要提高对这种疾病的认识，并制定政策，减少对在不同组织工作的艾滋病毒携带者/艾滋病患者的污名化。
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) are stigmatised socially. They are devalued and considered like outcasts by having lesser opportunities for education, treatment and housing, and in an organisational context they get reduced opportunities of selection, promotion and income. The phenomena have been extensively researched in developed countries but limited literature addresses the situation in underdeveloped countries like Pakistan, which is also facing spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. There are a number of groups who are carrying the disease but the problems being faced by PLHA employed in different organisations have rarely been analysed. Stigma at the workplace can generate a number of negative outcomes. The present study considers two such outcomes among stigmatised PLHA. These outcomes are organisational cynicism and breach of psychological contract. A questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 174 PLHA, having a work experience after identification of the epidemic, working in different organisations across Pakistan. These PLHA were identified and recruited through a scattered record available with some government/non-government organisations operating in Pakistan to control HIV/AIDS. Findings of the study extend the knowledge about HIV/AIDS stigma indicating that PLHA are subjected to stigma, which is significantly associated with a breach of psychological contract and organisational cynicism. There is a need at governmental and organisational level as well to increase awareness about the disease and formulate policies to reduce stigma against PLHA working in different organisations.