This article will explore the concept of HIV patients facing stigma in their community, specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda). Stigma is a complex concept associated with “immoral people” or people defined as unworthy of quality treatment by others. However, when working with HIV/AIDS patients, stigma and discrimination become the behavior used in the community to isolate this group of people. Therefore, discrimination refers to the unfair way in which an individual is treated due to their HIV status or perceived status, while stigma occurs when an individual is humiliated and/or treated as an outcast. Furthermore, Mbonye et. al. (2013) identifies social stigma and in many African communities this is what prevents individuals from checking their health status or receiving appropriate medical care after diagnosis. However, sero-sorting has become a process used by HIV/AIDS patients to reduce stigma by mating with another HIV/AIDS patient (especially through sexual relationships) to eliminate guilt and stigma from community. HIV has always been a disease that people fear. more and would stigmatize anyone associated with this disease, especially in Africa. Mbonye et. al. (2013) explains how deep the stigma is and why people continually live in fear of sharing their status. For example, in Uganda, people diagnosed with this virus go through the withdrawal phase as they are extremely afraid of someone finding out their status, so they distance themselves and manage or control the disease as best they "think" they can. Another example is that one of the Muslim women involved in the study completely withdrew from the public when her status was confirmed; felt enormous shame and continued to fear w...... middle of paper ...... stereotypes, misconceptions and stigma in low-income countries. From my research, however, it has become evident that several countries in sub-Saharan Africa face a fair amount of stigma around HIV. I searched the Discover link and typed “HIV and stigma in low-income countries.” The search was a little too broad and I added "African countries" and removed "low income countries", unfortunately this provided the results I was looking for. Therefore, I refined the database and searched under Global Health to get a more specific article and removed the "African countries", which helped narrow down the search by surfacing relevant articles. Finally, I used Boolean operators such as "and" and quotation marks to generate more precise results and also reviewed academic journals to ensure that the resulting articles were credible.