New article: The affordances of electronic health management systems in the production of structural stigma

A new article led by DruGS team member Emily Lenton addresses the constitutive role of medical records in the production of stigma. Stemming from a research partnership developing novel strategies to address stigma related to blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections in healthcare services, this new article analyses how the very process of producing medical…

Addressing BBV and STI-related stigma in healthcare: New resources for healthcare services now available

The DruGS team has recently published an implementation guide to support healthcare workers to use the blood-borne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmissible infections (STI) stigma reduction toolkit. In 2022 the team published the practice-ready stigma reduction toolkit designed to be used by individual healthcare professionals and services to tackle stigma and discrimination related to BBVs…