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Coronavirus stigma weighs heavily in sub-Saharan Africa

In Nigeria, public health announcements have hammered home the message that stigmatising survivors of coronavirus is wrong

Landlords evict people from their homes, nurses are abandoned by their husbands and people are spurned just on suspicion of coming into contact with a COVID-19 patient.

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