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Provision of ART can reduce stigma, but additional interventions are needed. Studies found that lack of knowledge of ARV treatment increased stigma, but that ARV treatment alone did not eliminate stigma and discrimination.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
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Efforts are needed to reduce TB-related stigma for women. A study found that in Malawi, TB-related stigma was closely linked with HIV; in Colombia, women faced work-related stigma; and in India and Bangladesh, women were concerned about the impact of TB on marital prospects and social isolation.
Tuberculosis
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Further interventions to provide support programs, including counseling, are needed for AIDS-orphaned children and their caregivers to combat depression, social isolation and stigma. Studies found that AIDS orphans reported insufficient food, depression and stigma.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
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Further interventions are needed to reduce stigma and discrimination against women, specifically, who are at high risk or living with HIV. [See also %{s:45}] Studies found that women and girls are highly stigmatized if they test positive for HIV. Stigma impacts the HIV-positive woman, herself, as well as her children, her siblings and her family. Some providers also discriminate against those living with HIV.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
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Judicial action, legislation, and training on legal rights can protect people living with HIV from discrimination. Studies found that people reported being denied housing or being evicted for testing HIV-positive but that peer education on legal rights may increase protect people from discrimination. [See also %{s:61}]
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
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Increased dissemination of basic knowledge on HIV is needed to reduce stigma. A study found that both men and women attending HIV testing lacked basic knowledge on how HIV is transmitted, with a majority believing for example, that HIV is transmitted by sharing food and about half refusing to associate with an HIV-positive individual.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
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Mandatory pre-marital HIV testing may increase HIV stigma. A study found youth believed that mandatory pre-marital HIV testing would increase stigma against those who test HIV-positive with significant numbers believing that they were not personally at risk of acquiring HIV.
Increasing Access to Services
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Increased efforts are needed to reduce stigma against adolescents living with HIV, particularly young key populations. A study found that adolescents living with HIV kept silent about their HIV status to schools, friends and family so as to not experience stigma and discrimination.
Increasing Access to Services
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Interventions are needed to mitigate adverse events such as stigma or violence when women disclose their serostatus to their partners. [See also %{c:21}] A study found that women who disclosed their positive serostatus to their sexual partners feared abandonment; fear that the relationship would end; and fear of stigma. Of women who disclosed their positive serostatus to their partner, 59.3% experienced a negative reaction, such as violence, break-up of the relationship, being blamed, stigma and abandonment.
Staying Healthy and Reducing Transmission
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Additional efforts are needed to reduce HIV stigma so that women will present at health care settings with malaria symptoms and be willing to test for HIV before the development of more serious complications.
Malaria
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Interventions are needed to support parents and caregivers on taking care of children living with HIV. Needs include information and training as well as combating stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive children.
Women and Girls
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Providers need training on meeting the contraceptive needs of women and couples with HIV, including providing non-directive, informed choice counseling and reducing stigma and discrimination for women living with HIV. [See %{c:15}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Health care settings must address the needs of transgender people and reduce barriers to services. One study found that transgender women reported stigma, discrimination and violations of confidentiality by providers.
Transgender Women and Men
1 study
Providers need training on meeting the contraceptive needs of women and couples with HIV, including providing non-directive, informed choice counseling and reducing stigma and discrimination for women living with HIV. [See %{c:15}]
Preventing Unintended Pregnancies
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Strategies, including legal strategies, are needed to empower pregnant women living with HIV to ask questions, be properly informed and to challenge stigma, disrespect and abuse. [See also %{s:67}] Consequences for violating patient confidentiality, redress for women with HIV facing discrimination in facilities, and stigma reduction efforts are needed to increase adherence to cART, prior to, during and post pregnancy, including training for providers.
Antenatal Care - Treatment
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Efforts are needed to implement and research interventions to alleviate stigma and discrimination on the basis of HIV status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex work and drug use in the health care sector, social services, police and the judiciary. [See %{s:67} and %{c:7}]
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
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Expansion and scaling up of interventions promoting economic opportunities for women are needed to increase their ability to refuse unsafe sex and reduce stigma for women living with HIV. Studies found that lack of income, food and jobs forced women to sell sex to survive, placing them at risk of HIV acquisition.
Promoting Women’s Employment, Income and Livelihood Opportunities
1 study
Efforts are needed to educate youth about sexual diversity in order to reduce stigma and discrimination. One study found that in no country in Latin America or the Caribbean was there any school-based sexuality initiatives that discussed sexual diversity. Current efforts are underway by Promundo (Greene, 2012b).
Transgender Women and Men
1 study
Strategies need to be identified to empower women to create demand for improved maternal health services and challenge violations of their rights in facility-based childbirth. This is a particularly acute need for women living with HIV. Studies show that HIV-related stigma may reduce the likelihood of delivering in a health facility
Antenatal Care - Treatment
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Stigma reduction interventions are needed so that women with HIV can choose replacement feeding, breastfeeding and weaning schedules. Studies found that HIV-positive women feared that if they used infant formula or abruptly weaned, they would be stigmatized for their HIV-positive serostatus.
Postpartum
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