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Alanna Bergman is a member of the research faculty at the University of Virginia School of Nursing with expertise in qualitative methods, psychometric analysis, and global health. Her background as an advanced practice nurse with experience in HIV and TB services provision grounds her research around infectious disease stigma and its impact on care engagement through the TB care cascade. She is particularly interested in strengthening TB stigma measurement as a means to evaluate anti-stigma interventions. As a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, she is an affiliated scientist at the Center for Infectious Disease and Nursing Innovation at Johns Hopkins University. Alanna is an assistant editor with the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and the 2021 recipient of the Frank Lamendola Leadership in Nursing Award.

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Focus groups were conducted to support the co-development of a person-centred stigma intervention with TB-affected community members and health workers in South Africa.

This month's article will be presented by Dr Alanna Bergman, a nurse practitioner and post-doctoral research fellow in the Office of Nursing Research, University of Virginia


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