Stigmatized diseases

The community holds the victim responsible for his illness and sees the condition as a punishment for his earlier actions.

1. Social stigma
2. Human disease and disability
3. Discrimination against the ill

1. Yellow fever
2. Underweight
3. Typhoid fever
4. Tuberculosis
5. Speech disorders
6. Smallpox
7. Sexually transmitted diseases
8. Poliomyelitis
9. Plague
10. Physical blindness
11. Obesity
12. Mumps
13. Mental illness
14. Measles
15. Leprosy
16. Learning disorders
17. Human sexual disorders
18. Human infertility
19. Herpes
20. Dwarfism
21. Deafness
22. Congenital syndromes affecting multiple systems
23. Club foot
24. Cleft palate
25. Cholera
26. Anthrax
27. Acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

1. Superstition
2. Discriminatory scientific language

1. Physical unfitness
2. Genetic discrimination

1. Studying stigmatized diseases

1. Disease

1. Top 10 Stigmatized Health Disorders
2. Disease and Stigma: A Review of Literature
3. Stigmatized Illnesses and Health Care
4. Stigmatization Complicates Infectious Disease Management
5. Stigma and Infectious Diseases
6. Culture, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Stigmatized Illnesses
7. When the stigma of a disease makes its diagnosis even worse