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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2015 Aug 14;27(10):1317–1325. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1054338

Table 3.

The prevalence of internalized HIV stigma among PLHIV.

Statements Mean (SD) Strongly agree/
agree, n (%)
2. People’s attitudes make me feel worse about myself 2.45 (0.69) 1497 (50.1)
7. Having HIV makes me feel I am a bad person 2.43 (0.69) 1374 (46.0)
3. I feel I am not as good as others because I have HIV 2.40 (0.71) 1372 (45.9)
8. Having HIV in my body is disgusting to me 2.29 (0.68) 1092 (36.6)
4. I avoid making new friends because I have HIV 2.27 (0.68) 1048 (35.1)
5. Having HIV makes me feel unclean 2.26 (0.67) 1049 (35.1)
6. I feel set apart, isolated from the rest of the world 2.26 (0.68) 1015 (34.0)
1. I feel guilty because I have HIV 2.17 (0.68) 881 (29.5)
Total 18.49 (4.35) 2117 (71.9)