Hae-Ra Han

1 Introduction Black or African American women are disproportionately affected by HIV—they represent 13% of the United States population of females but nearly 60% of incident HIV diagnoses among females (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023). Stigma is a social process by which groups of individuals are devalued and deemed socially undesirable (Goffman 1963). HIV-related stigma has negative effects on the health behaviours and health outcomes of Black women living with HIV (WLH).

1 INTRODUCTION Internationally there is a shortage of nursing faculty (Boamah et al., 2021). Doctoral education is foundational to the faculty role in schools of nursing particularly in advancing research inspired teaching. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) reports that about 73% of PhD students plan to pursue academic careers for which teaching is one of the essential functions (Fang et al., 2016).

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