Health care providers play a vital role in ensuring quality care, treatment, and support for people living with HIV (PLHIV). However, stigma and discrimination within health care settings remain major barriers to effective HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care. HIV-related stigma refers to negative attitudes, beliefs, and prejudices directed towards individuals living with or affected by HIV. Discrimination is the unfair treatment of these individuals based on their HIV status. When these attitudes are displayed by health care providers, they undermine patient rights, reduce access to services, and negatively affect public health outcomes. Stigma among health care providers often arises from fear of HIV transmission, lack of accurate knowledge about the disease, personal biases, cultural beliefs, and moral judgments regarding the modes of HIV transmission. Some providers mistakenly associate HIV with behaviors such as drug use, commercial sex work, or same-sex relationships and may judge patients based on these assumptions. Such misconceptions contribute to negative attitudes that interfere with the delivery of compassionate and professional care. Discrimination in health care settings can take many forms. Some health care providers may refuse to treat HIV-positive patients or unnecessarily refer them elsewhere. Others may delay treatment, provide substandard care, isolate patients without medical necessity, or use excessive protective measures beyond