Design and application in Cuba of a construct to identify social dimensions associated with HIV/AIDS discrimination

This paper presents the design and application in Cuba of a social construct to identify the social dimensions associated with discrimination attitudes towards people with positive diagnosis to HIV. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology was used for the measurement and validation of a construct, and also the K-mean procedure and factor analysis techniques. All these techniques were applied to "Survey on HIV prevention indicators" 2005, 2006 and 2009. A tool for the identification of the most frequent discriminatory attitudes in a specific social context was validated. This instrument allows clustering the population into different typologies, by level of discrimination, and also, to distinguish some social dimensions of this phenomenon. The results allow distinguishing frequent discriminatory attitudes in any population, focusing the actions in the direction of gradually reducing them, and to evaluate the temporal behavior of this phenomenon.