Statement of Retraction: “Managing and Controlling HIV/AIDS Talk among Ghanaians Living with HIV/AIDS”

Abstract

We, the Editors and Publishers of Communicatio, have retracted the following article:

Cyril Latzoo. 2013. “Managing and Controlling HIV/AIDS Talk among Ghanaians Living with HIV/AIDS.” Communicatio 39 (3): 319–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2013.777352

Following its publication, it was brought to our attention that this article contains significant overlap, in the form of continuous sentences throughout all sections, with the following article:

Erin Donovan-Kicken, Andrew C. Tollison, and Elizabeth S. Goins. 2011. “A Grounded Theory of Control over Communication Among Individuals with Cancer.” Journal of Applied Communication Research 39 (3): 310–330. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2011.585398

The article by Donovan-Kicken, Tollison, and Goins (2011) was neither cited nor otherwise acknowledged. The author was contacted for an explanation but has not responded.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted.”

This article refers to:

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Managing and controlling HIV/AIDS talk among Ghanaians living with HIV/AIDS