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Review
. 2020 Oct:89:555-558.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.07.033. Epub 2020 Jul 27.

Infectious disease outbreak related stigma and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers, facilitators, manifestations, and outcomes across the world

Ramdas Ransing  1 , Rodrigo Ramalho  2 , Renato de Filippis  3 , Margaret Isioma Ojeahere  4 , Ruta Karaliuniene  5 , Laura Orsolini  6 , Mariana Pinto da Costa  7 , Irfan Ullah  8 , Paolo Grandinetti  9 , Drita Gashi Bytyçi  10 , Omityah Grigo  11 , Aman Mhamunkar  12 , Samer El Hayek  13 , Lamiaà Essam  14 , Amine Larnaout  15 , Mohammadreza Shalbafan  16 , Marwa Nofal  17 , Joan Soler-Vidal  18 , Victor Pereira-Sanchez  19 , Frances Adiukwu  20
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Infectious disease outbreak related stigma and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers, facilitators, manifestations, and outcomes across the world

Ramdas Ransing et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Oct.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Analysis of the stigmatization process for COVID-19 using Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework (HSDF).
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