We need to talk about monkeypox without shame and blame
- Written by: Jennifer Power, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
The recent global outbreak of monkeypox largely among men who have sex with men has raised concerns homophobia will undermine effective prevention efforts. There are also fears the disease will fuel homophobic stigma and discrimination.
Even the name monkeypox is stigmatising due to long-held racist appropriation of the term monkey and the false...
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