Addressing the COVID-19 related stigma and discrimination: a fight against "infodemic" in Bangladesh

IF 0.7 Q3 Medicine

Minerva Psichiatrica Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.23736/s0391-1772.20.02088-9

M. Hasan, S. Hossain, Tanjir R. Saran, H. Ahmed

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving rapidly as an overwhelming burden on human health and health systems of many countries includes low resource settings like Bangladesh The country is facing crisis and several challenges to manage confirmed and symptomatic cases with limited administrative and logistic support, inadequate governance and widespread panic and stigma throughout the country As the number of persons with COVID-19 and death are increasing there is a potential of heightened mass panic, stress and discrimination in coming days which can be predicted from recent protests in different parts of the country, spread of rumors and falsehoods, non-scientific information, limitations in governance and growing discrimination towards certain group of population and professionals As World Health Organization (WHO) speculated this trajectory of pandemic is uncertain, this emerging body of stigma and discrimination needs to be addressed by proper authorities, “infodemic” should be controlled by legal steps and mass awareness campaigns should be launched without further delays © 2020 Edizioni Minerva Medica Online version at http://www minervamedica it

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应对新冠肺炎相关的耻辱和歧视：孟加拉国打击“信息传播”

新冠肺炎大流行正在迅速演变，因为许多国家的人类卫生和卫生系统承受着巨大的负担，包括孟加拉国等资源匮乏的环境，治理不足以及全国各地普遍的恐慌和耻辱随着新冠肺炎患者和死亡人数的增加，未来几天可能会加剧大规模恐慌、压力和歧视，这可以从该国不同地区最近的抗议活动、谣言和虚假信息的传播、非科学信息、，治理的局限性和对某些群体人口和专业人员日益严重的歧视由于世界卫生组织（世界卫生组织）推测这一流行病的发展轨迹不确定，“infodemic”应通过法律措施进行控制，并应立即发起大规模宣传活动©2020 Edizioni Minerva Medica Online版本http://wwwminervamedica it

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Minerva Psichiatrica PSYCHIATRY-

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期刊介绍： The journal Minerva Psichiatrica publishes scientific papers on psychiatry, psycology and psycopharmacology. Manuscripts may be submitted in the form of editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, therapeutical notes, special articles and letters to the Editor. Manuscripts are expected to comply with the instructions to authors which conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Editors by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org). Articles not conforming to international standards will not be considered for acceptance.