Original Research Article
Year: 2023 | Month: January-March | Volume: 8 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 282-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20230140
The Community Stigma on People Suffering from HIV/AIDS: A Qualitative Phenomenology at APO Bengkel Jayapura Papua
Sulistiyani1, Yunita Kristina2, Korinus Suweni3, Nurmiyanti DO Siddik4, Lalu Guntur Payasan5
1,3,5Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
2,4Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical, Cenderawasih University Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Yunita Kristina
ABSTRACT
The most frequently observed community or individual stigma about people suffering from HIV/AIDS deals with moral violation. For the community and the individual, this moral valuation is unacceptable and leads to cynical actions against people suffering from HIV/AIDS. The community or the individual may be scared, experience a negative situation, and assume that the people deserve to suffer from HIV/AIDS disease due to their actions. This stigma influenced the people suffering from HIV/AIDS and changed their life. From the information, the researchers explored the community's perception of dealing with the community's stigma on people suffering from HIV/AIDS, specifically on the teenagers at APO Bengkel. This qualitative research applied a phenomenological approach. The researchers took the sample with purposive sampling, resulting in four respondents. The results showed three primary themes. They were the understanding of the community on people suffering from HIV, the stigma, and the general perception of people suffering from HIV/AIDS, including friends and family suffering from the disease, and the stigma impact, such as feeling down, having difficulty to interact, feeling left, and feeling afraid to visit a doctor.
Keywords: Community nursing, Stigma, HIV/AIDS