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Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources.
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Stigmabase @stigmabase.bsky.social · Mar 15
Our team has been listing thousands articles on social exclusion since 2010. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved. Through our action, we hope to be a vehicle for change.

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What happens when America switches off health funding?
Some PrEP services were also affected, while concerns emerged over the availability of antiretroviral medicines, transportation of laboratory samples ... View article...
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October 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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How a Human Rights Act exemption removes essential protections for people in Queensland prisons
We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty ... View article...
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October 13, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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ViiV Healthcare and Axmed partner to expand access to HIV medicines in middle-income countries
 ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Shionogi as a shareholder, today announced an ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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SA records progress in HIV treatment, prevention
An international study led by Stellenbosch University published recently in the Lancet HIV, found that overall HIV incidence in SA's rural KwaZulu ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Youth advocates urge rangatahi to vote as homelessness concerns grow
Research by the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness found Wāhine Māori make up over 50 percent of the total homeless population and account for at ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Roger Cook defends Don Punch's silence on Port Hedland crisis
West Australian Premier Roger Cook has defended the silence of his Aboriginal Affairs Minister on the crisis engulfing the Indigenous community in ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Expanding Access to Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention in Eswatini
In December 2025, Eswatini became one of the first African countries to offer the medication as an alternative to daily HIV-prevention pills. The ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Benue sets up 7-man team to sustain HIV treatment for 197,000 patients
With more than 197,000 people receiving HIV/AIDS care services in Benue State, the state government has constituted a ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Ta Rē Moriori Revival Reveals Rēkohu's True History
Rēkohu - the Chatham Islands in English, Wharekauri in te reo Māori - is a small corner of Aotearoa New Zealand, 800 kilometres east of the South ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Study backs wider glucose monitors for type 2 diabetes
"Māori, Pacific, and Indian communities are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes and its complications, and we are seeing an earlier ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Countries locked into IMF austerity programs are also around twice as vulnerable to ...
... inequality and push more people into hunger. In Ecuador and Guinea-Bissau, for example, governments are being required to implement austerity ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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The global panel on inequality needs African evidence: here's how it could work
It would assess the scale of inequality, its drivers and consequences, and the policies that can reduce it. The African Union endorsed the initiative ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Social vulnerability amplifies global inequality in urban heat risk
Yet, the extent to which this assumption underestimates global climate inequality remains unclear. Here, we conduct a comparative heat risk assessment ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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The AI labor apocalypse is on hold (for now)
... inequality, with a gap 'between top‑tier jobs with multimillion dollar ... inequality, with a gap 'between top‑tier jobs with multimillion ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Gender Discrimination in Afghanistan: Family Pressure Pushing Girls to the Brink of ...
Several psychologists are warning about a recent rise in gender inequality. According to them, it has left deep and damaging psychological and ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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BBC Apologizes for Defaming PinkNews Couple
The allegations centered on claims that Cohen and James had engaged in sexual misconduct toward junior employees at the LGBTQ news outlet and enabled ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Republican Lawmaker Claims Schools Are 'Transing the Kids' Over LGBTQ+ History Month
“Loudoun County in Virginia is up to it again, where they are now having a gay month, an LGBTQ transing the kids month in October,” Griffin said. View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Senegal: Brutal Crackdown Violates LGBT People's Rights
Senegal's growing crackdown on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people is violating their rights, causing increasing fear and stigma ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Taipei Gay Bar Raid Sparks LGBTQ Protest
About 100 members of Taipei's LGBTQ community protested outside a local police station on October 4 after officers raided a gay bar, taking 51 people ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Justice Alito rages against marriage rights
Justice Samuel Alito said that marriage equality should be overturned because it makes Christians look bad for opposing it View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Highest borrowing costs in decades push developing countries to brink of liquidity crisis ...
... Latin America. 130 million more people at risk of poverty without support. To date, developing countries have been able to partially protect their ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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New report highlights cancer disparities among Hispanic, Latino Americans
Cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanic and Latino people in the United States, according to a new report from the American Cancer ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Study reveals declining inequality in Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro
A new study suggests that economic inequality declined as the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro developed, challenging the assumption that ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Cervical cancer in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia
While favourable incidence trends have been recorded in many populations in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean in the past decades, rising rates ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Latin America is living longer. Are we prepared to provide better care?
Latin America's aging population demands stronger primary healthcare, continuous care, and more equitable access to services. Ronald Jonathan Cañarte ... View article...
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October 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM