Analysis of Factors Associated with Self-Stigma (PLHIV) on the HIV and AIDS Incidence in Jongaya Positive Care Supporting Group of Makassar City

HIV and AIDS in many countries show the iceberg phenomenon. Community stigma makes people living with HIV and AIDS become closed so that someone judges himself as a useless person. The purpose of this study was to analyze Stigma people with HIV and AIDS on the incidence of HIV and AIDS in peer support groups of Jongaya Care. The type of research used was non-experiment with an analytic approach through a cross-sectional study design to assess the relationship of attitudes, motivation, experience, expectations, level of education, length of illness, age, and sex of PLHIV with self-stigma against HIV and AIDS. Data were analyzed by Fisher’s test exact test with a significance level of α = 0.05. Statistical test results of Fisher exact test showed that p > 0.05 for attitudes, motivation, experience, expectations, duration of illness, and sex so that the conclusion of the study there was a significant relationship between the six factors with self-stigma of PLHIV, whereas there was no significant relationship between level of education and age to self-stigma of PLHIV.