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  • HIV stigma divides and fragments gay communities

    A review of research studies has identified a growing division within gay communities, in which HIV-negative gay men associate mainly with other HIV-negative men, and HIV-positive men mostly mix with other HIV-positive men. Moreover stigma has negative impacts ...

    14 December 2011 | Roger Pebody

  • Media campaign on disclosure and stigma changes gay men’s attitudes

    Despite the central role of behaviour change media campaigns in many countries’ HIV-prevention programming, careful evaluation of their impact remains rare. The evaluation described here is not a randomised control trial (which provides the most reliable form of evidence), but ...

    21 September 2011 | Roger Pebody

  • House of Lords says UK needs new national HIV prevention campaign, bigger push for testing

    The United Kingdom government must give much greater priority to HIV prevention, and consider a new national campaign to inform the general public of the risks of HIV infection, according to a report issued today by the House of ...

    01 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

  • South African women with AIDS conspiracy beliefs half as likely to use condoms

    Grebe E & Nattrass N AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs and Unsafe Sex in Cape Town. AIDS & Behavior, online ahead of print 2011. DOI 10.1007/s10461-011-9958-2. Click here for the free abstract. ...

    18 May 2011 | Roger Pebody

  • People who stigmatise HIV are less likely to take an HIV test

    Individuals with stigmatising beliefs about HIV are less likely to test for the virus, an international team of investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The research involved 5249 individuals in the South ...

    30 October 2010 | Michael Carter

  • Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

    Parliamentarians have joined with UNAIDS to call for the removal of travel restrictions for people with HIV. Governments were urged to action by parliamentarians from around the world, meeting at the 122nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary ...

    29 March 2010 | Michael Carter

  • UNAIDS launches action framework for women, girls and HIV

    UNAIDS has launched an Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (2010–2014), which has been developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to put women and girls ...

    03 March 2010 | Press Release

  • Uganda: government minister questions need for new anti-gay laws

    A Ugandan government minister has questioned the need for new legislation which would intensify penalties for consenting homosexual acts. Aston Kajara, minister of state for investments, the Agence France-Presse news agency: "The government's position is that ...

    08 January 2010 | Keith Alcorn

  • Certain manifestations of stigma especially hurtful for people with HIV

    Specific manifestations of HIV-related stigma best predict psychological distress in HIV-positive individuals, Dutch investigators report in the November edition of AIDS. These include difficulties with health care workers and lack of frankness within the family, but ...

    05 November 2009 | Michael Carter

  • Health care providers must respond to HIV-related stigma

    HIV is both preventable and treatable. However people with and at risk of HIV often experience stigma and discrimination. This can mean that they are deterred from using prevention, care and treatment services. All too ...

    24 October 2009 | Michael Carter
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  • Malaysia: Battling disease and stigma

    What sets HIV/AIDS apart from other diseases is the glaring fact that there are pockets of people who cannot look past what causes it to be transmitted.

    20 May 2012 | AsiaOne

  • Criminal Injustice: HIV criminalization survivors speak up

    HIV criminalization laws do little to stem the epidemic or protect public health. Instead, they often backfire and discourage people from being tested. Here, three courageous advocates share their stories of HIV criminalization and their crusade for health, welfare and justice.

    14 May 2012 | Poz

  • Ghana: Ghana Has No Specific Laws Protecting People Living With HIV - Ghana AIDS Commission

    The rise in the incidence of stigmatisation and discrimination against majority of care givers of Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) is as the result of the non-existence of laws to protect them, according to the Ghana AIDS Commission as captured in its National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan 2011-2015.

    16 April 2012 | AllAfrica

  • Jamaica - Church opposes gay stigma on HIV/AIDS advocacy

    REPRESENTATIVES OF UNAIDS are faced with the dilemma of how to enlist the support of local faith-based organisations (FBOs) in the HIV/AIDS prevention campaign without violating the institutions' doctrinal principles. 

    08 April 2012 | Jamaica Gleaner

  • ACLU takes on the tough cases, including HIV/AIDS

    The longstanding nonprofit established civil-rights protections with landmark cases, and in 1984, helped draft the nation's first law to expressly protect the rights of HIV-positive individuals. 

    04 April 2012 | Windy City Times

  • Liberia: Stigmatization and Discrimination Against HIV/Aids Victims Must Stop or Else...

     We have observed that stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS remain major obstacle in the fight against the killer disease in the country.

    02 April 2012 | AllAfrica

  • Churches in Africa becoming 'HIV competent'

    The Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa (EHAIA) has recently documented the impact it has achieved since 2002.

    07 March 2012 | Christian Today

  • Zimbabwe President Urge MPs to Reveal HIV Status to Fight Stigma

    President Robert Mugabe has urged politicians to reveal their HIV status - in order to fight the stigma associated with the virus that causes AIDS. Mugabe made the appeal in Harare Thursday at the launch of Zimbabwe Parliamentarians Against HIV and AIDS - or ZIPAH. 

    01 March 2012 | Voice of America

  • Mugabe admits losing cabinet to HIV and AIDS

    President Robert Mugabe has admitted for the first time that he has watched over the past years most of his cabinet ministers succumbing to HIV and Aids related deaths. 

    01 March 2012 | The Zimbabwean

  • AIDS in India's northeast: still a hidden disaster

    India’s north east, home to some 60 million people, is amongst the poorest, least developed and most violent parts of the country. For decades, the region has been ridden with fractured conflicts and in recent years, another danger has been growing

    18 January 2012 | Radio Netherlands
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