Table 1.
Types of stigma experiencedby study subjects inEast and West GojamZones, northern Ethiopia
|
Type of stigma (n = 1303) |
Places |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | Church | Marriage | Market | Feast/ Holiday gathering | Non-specific | |
|
School drop-out |
17 (1.3%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forced exclusion |
|
25 (1.9%) |
22 (1.7%) |
|
40 (3.1%) |
|
|
Not buying their products |
|
|
|
26 (2%) |
|
|
|
Shunning |
14 (1.1%) |
33 (2.5%) |
18 (1.4%) |
|
29 (2.2%) |
|
|
Pointing at them |
5 (0.4%) |
25 (1.9%) |
2 (0.2%) |
|
10 (0.8%) |
|
|
Pinching nose |
3 (0.2%) |
19 (1.5%) |
0 (0%) |
|
13 (1%) |
|
|
Insulting |
|
|
|
|
|
19 (1.5%) |
| Total | 39 (3.0%) | 102 (7.8%) | 42 (3.2%) | 26 (2.0%) | 92 (7.1%) | 19 (1.5%) |