This factsheet highlights the impact that stigma can have on people’s willingness to participate in the program and offers strategies to create more supportive, respectful, and inclusive care.

This webinar, hosted by the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL), explores how the stigma faced by people who use drugs can amount to torture and a breach of human rights under international law.

This commentary, published in Nature Medicine on June 5, 2025, calls for a shift in how liver diseases are talked about to reduce stigma and discrimination.

This pilot study, led by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Hepatitis Alliance, tested a new survey tool in nine European countries to explore stigma and discrimination faced by people living with hepatitis B and C.

The paper highlights how stigma, often driven by blame, fear, or negative stereotypes, harms people’s health and opportunities. The group agreed on evidence, recommendations, and a global pledge to put an end to diabetes stigma and discrimination.

Transcend Australia’s Parent Hub offers practical, evidence-based fact sheets like How to Support Your Child When They Tell You They Are Non-Binary—available in multiple languages, including Chinese, Arabic and others.

Wavelength is a 100% free online training platform designed to help medical students and junior doctors provide safe, inclusive care for LGBTQI+ communities.

We all want our efforts to reduce stigma to produce only “good” effects. But this isn’t always the case when the message of campaigns is not interpreted as intended. Campaigns can increase stigma and other unintended harmful outcomes.

This practical guide includes a clear 5-step process on how to create a welcoming experience for communities, which can be easily adapted for other sectors.

Hosted by the Hepatitis C Mentor and Support Group, this recorded webinar explores the real-world impact of hepatitis C stigma—from healthcare settings to daily life.

Reducing stigma is essential to improving the health and wellbeing of people who use, or have used, alcohol and other drugs. The Alcohol and Other Drugs Care Charter is a practical tool designed to help all staff—across any service—deliver care that is safe, accessible, equitable, and non-judgemental.

Developed by the Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA) and the NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA), Language Matters is a best-practice guide for non-government alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers.

This one-hour training from the Obesity Collective explores the science behind obesity, shares personal stories from both patients and healthcare professionals, and offers practical tips for better, stigma-free care.

In 2019, former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas publicly disclosed his HIV status. Join Gareth and host Craig Doyle as they talk about how Gareth lives with the virus, how others have treated him, and the stigma around HIV.

The language used to talk about mental ill-health can play a key role in reducing or enforcing stigma. And it's constantly evolving. But what terms should be used and when? And by whom? This podcast episode aims to find out.

Patrick Corrigan, PsyD, editor of APA’s journal Stigma and Health, discusses where this stigma comes from, how it affects people’s lives, why it’s important for those with mental illness to share their stories.

This DocuStory film captures powerful conversations on wellness, sharing personal and professional stories from across different walks of life. Through these voices, the film highlights the vital role the Indigenous community plays in raising awareness about liver health.

Published in BMC Medicine, this open-access paper introduces the Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework—a global, crosscutting model designed to guide research, interventions, and policy across multiple health issues including HIV, cancer and mental illness.

While stigma is widely recognised as harmful, some argue it can act as a deterrent to addiction. This paper challenges that idea, examining whether so-called “justified disapproval” can be separated from stigma—or whether it simply reinforces it.

Published in the Social Science and Medicine Journal, this study explores how abortion stigma shapes the environment in which abortion is delivered and received and can have important implications for quality in abortion care.