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We agree that this should be an ongoing conversation that speaks to deeper themes about stigma, care, and health beyond the current monkeypox outbreak. We hope, as does Dr Gilmore, that research will address these issues in the near future.","URL":"https:\/\/wellcomeopenresearch.org\/articles\/7-252\/v2#referee-comment-5151","order":1,"name":"referee-comment-5151","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.21956\/wellcomeopenres.21801.r62031, Dennis Altman, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic, 07 Jul 2023, version 2, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/wellcomeopenresearch.org\/articles\/7-252\/v2#referee-response-62031","order":2,"name":"referee-response-62031","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"MP is currently in receipt of funds from Wellcome [223615; 218471; 209519], UK Medical Research Council (MRC) [MR\/S035818\/1], UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [ES\/T014164\/1], and Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2020-295]. JGI is in receipt of funds from the Sociology of Health and Illness Foundation [Mildred Baxter Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021] and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [ES\/W002426\/1]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.","order":3,"name":"grant-information","label":"Grant Information"},{"value":"This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.","order":0,"name":"copyright-info","label":"Copyright"}]}}