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Background: People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) ex-perience stigma and discrimination. Negative attitudes of nursing faculty about caring for PLHIV can adversely affect student perceptions and their nursing care. The study pur-pose was to describe nursing faculty attitudes and beliefs about caring for PLHIV. Method: The HPASS (Healthcare Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale), Spanish version, was de¬livered to nursing faculty in Colombia and Peru. Results: The HPASS was completed by 98 nursing faculty. The overall mean score was 2.41 (SD = 0.69), with subscale scores: ste¬reotypes, 2.55 (SD = 0.84); discrimination, 2.28 (SD = 0.74); and prejudices, 2.41 (SD = 0.63). Peruvian faculty had the highest scores, statistically correlated with the importance of religion, whereas Colombia had the lowest. Conclusion: Nursing faculty attitudes toward PLHIV were slightly posi¬tive in Colombia to slightly negative in Peru; however, both countries had negative stereotypes. Knowledge deficiencies about HIV persist and attitudes appear to be influenced by culture and religion.