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Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
"...Three decades into the epidemic, stigmatization remains a core feature of the patient experience of HIV/AIDS" (Gilbert and Walker, 2010: 144). Or as one woman living with HIV in Thailand put it: "It does not matter how many thousand people have HIV/AIDS... I would say that only zero percent will accept people living with HIV/AIDS" (Liamputtong et al., 2009: 865). Stigma and discrimination h...
Community-based interventions (including media) that provide accurate information about HIV transmission can significantly reduce HIV stigma and discrimination.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
7 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb, IV HIV testing, discrimination, education, knowledge, mass media, microfinance, stigma China, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam
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
1 study
Home- and community-based antiretroviral treatment may be effective, but attention must be paid to potential effects of stigma and discrimination. [See also %{c:21}]
Provision and Access
5 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb community-based care, home-based care, treatment Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda
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
1 study
Training for providers, along with access to the means of universal precautions, can reduce provider discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS. [See also %{c:25}]
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
6 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb HIV testing, Turkey, discrimination, providers, stigma, training, training programs China, India, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Vietnam
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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Recruiting and training opinion leaders can reduce stigmatizing behaviors in the community.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
2 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb opinion leaders, religious leaders, stigma China
Support to voluntarily disclose positive serostatus, along with ongoing support, increases HIV-positive women’s ability to cope and reduces perceived stigma in the community. [See also %{s:31} & %{s:71}]
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
3 studies Gray IV disclosure, discrimination, stigma, widows Australia, Botswana, India, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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
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}]
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
1 study
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
1 study
Repealing laws, policies and practices that criminalize same-sex sexual activity and exacerbate stigma and discrimination against LGBT communities can promote greater access to HIV prevention, treatment and care among MSM and, more broadly, LGBT communities.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
2 studies Gray IV, V MSM, criminal law, stigma and discrimination
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
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
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 also %{s:67}] Studies found that HIV-positive women were required to wait in separate waiting rooms and that because provider bias limited contraceptive options, providers needed additional training on the full range of contraceptive options. Other studies showed that providers have inaccurate knowledge concerning HIV and contraception.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
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Laws and practices that obstruct adolescents’ access to services, such as parental consent requirements, age, and marital status requirements, must be aligned with the actual behavior of adolescents. Studies found that legal requirements restricted adolescents from getting tested for HIV even if they were sexually active and at risk for HIV. "There is a strong evidence base that the stigma, discrimination and criminalization affecting adolescent key populations aged 10 to 17 is intensified due to domestic and international legal constructs that rely on law-enforcement based interventions dependent upon arrests, pre-trial detention, incarceration and compulsory ‘rehabilitation’ in institutional placements," particularly among adolescents who sell sex or inject drugs (Conner, 2015: para 1).
Increasing Access to Services
1 study