Experiences of stigma

Experiences of stigma features

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  Getting tough on criminalisation

  “Nothing short of barbaric.” This was the comment of a BBC presenter, confronted with the number and sheer arbitrary injustice of criminal convictions of people accused of transmitting...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Will a long life be a good one?

  People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Punching fog – how people with HIV are tackling stigma worldwide

  The UK theme of this World AIDS Day is ‘HIV: Reality’, building on last year’s theme of ‘Respect and Protect’. The reality is that HIV status continues...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Stigma begins at home

  The stigma attached to having HIV is one of the most all-pervasive aspects of living with the virus. HTU plans a series of articles addressing this complex subject....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  The consequences of fear

  How the myth of ‘health tourism’ is harming people with HIV, by Edwin J Bernard ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  HIV stigma, treatment and prevention

  Review of the impact of stigma on HIV treatment, prevention and care in resource-limited settings....

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Experiences of stigma in your own words

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  It takes two to tango - my family and diagnosis

  Let me tell you about telling some family members that I have HIV. I called my brother the night I was diagnosed. I wanted to tell him...

  From: In your own words

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  The sex police

  I met Amy through a friend – a friend who knew my HIV status. We got on really well and she asked if I wanted...

  From: In your own words

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  My hero!

  Sex. It’s messy, fraught with all sorts of psychological problems and yes, it’s obviously what got me into this whole predicament in the first place....

  From: In your own words

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  Having a baby

  I want my experiences to give hope to other people – things do not have to end when you find out that you have HIV. In...

  From: In your own words

Experiences of stigma news from aidsmap

• Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

  The Global Forum for MSM and HIV has released an analysis of its 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Study (GMHRS) concentrating on young men under 30 who have sex with men (MSM), complementing the full report which came out ...

  01 May 2013 | Gus Cairns

• For African women in the UK, formula feeding has a high social and personal cost

  Although most African women living with HIV in the UK do comply with medical recommendations to avoid breastfeeding, doing so comes at a high social and personal cost, according to qualitative research presented to the British HIV Association conference ...

  23 April 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Some barriers to adherence for black African people in London are culturally specific

  Qualitative research suggests that some of the barriers to antiretroviral adherence for black African and black Caribbean people are culturally specific, while other barriers common to many other people with HIV – such as stigma – play out in ...

  23 April 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Young gay men with HIV in the UK worry about disclosure, transmission and prosecution – older ones about confidence and sex

  A large majority of gay men in the UK with HIV describe having one or more problems with sex, an analysis of a survey originally published in 2009 reveals. Amongst other problems, the analysis of the 2009 What do you ...

  07 November 2012 | Gus Cairns

• How to tackle HIV stigma among health care workers

  Stemming in part from negative associations with the virus itself, and in part from marginalisation of populations highly impacted by the virus, stigma and discrimination has long dissuaded people from accessing HIV-related services. Studies presented last week at the ...

  02 August 2012 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• People with TB and HIV in South Africa face a double stigma

  People who have both tuberculosis (TB) and HIV experience “a unique and overlapping double stigma”, according to research published in the May issue of Social Science and Medicine. Having TB sends a signal that the person also has ...

  27 April 2012 | Roger Pebody

• 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

• Serodiscordant relationships for Africans in the UK often marked by uncertainty and disempowerment

  African people in the UK who are involved in a serodiscordant relationship (where one person has HIV and the other does not) have a wide range of experiences, according to a new study from Sigma Research. Nonetheless, two recurrent ...

  25 November 2011 | Roger Pebody

• MSM living in hostile social environments more likely to have negative feelings about sexuality, less likely to test for HIV

  The largest ever international study of the sexual health of men who have sex with men (MSM), which recruited men from across the European continent, has found clear links between the social environment men live in ...

  16 November 2011 | Roger Pebody

• The spirit is willing, but... sex in the HIV-positive over-50s

  Although the average age of the HIV-positive population is increasing, in both richer and poorer countries, and though sex between older people has often been cited as a possible risk factor for HIV, there has been surprisingly little investigation ...

  16 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

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Experiences of stigma news selected from other sources

• The Sound of Stigma

  An essay by Mark S. King—an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985—on why HIV stigma among gay men persists.

  14 May 2013 | Poz

• UZBEKISTAN: Uzbeks Required to Produce STD, Drugs Certificates to Travel Abroad

  According to Shuhrat Berdiyev, head of the Tashkent STD health clinic, Uzbekistan citizens wishing to travel outside of the country soon will have to produce certificates at border control stations demonstrating they suffer from neither drug addiction nor an STD. Berdiyev said the Senate currently was discussing the new rules, which were expected to be adopted in either May or June of this year.

  08 May 2013 | Uznews

• South Africa: 'He said sex with a virgin could cure HIV'

  A Soweto man allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter, believing it would cure him of HIV. This chilling evidence is part of a police investigation into the rape of the child on February 3.

  26 April 2013 | Independent Online

• Young black Brooklyn males struggling with sexual identify fuel Brooklyn HIV crisis

  A new generation of young Brooklyn black males - many who hide their sexual identify - are worrying doctors who say they are fueling the borough's HIV epidemic.

  25 April 2013 | NY Daily News

• AIDS 'Patient Zero' was a publicity strategy, scholar writes

  The 1987 New York Post headline - THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS - was arguably one of the most influential of all time. "Patient Zero" - a promiscuous gay Canadian flight attendant - had spread AIDS from coast to coast. The story sparked sensational media coverage, drove a book onto the best-seller lists, pushed the "gay disease" onto mainstream America's radar screen, and helped jump-start an activist movement. It was also wrong.

  22 April 2013 | Philly.com

• Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV

  Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which was the #3 grossing movie last week, presents HIV not only as if it’s some kind of karmic punishment for female sexual misbehavior, but also as if having the virus makes a woman permanently unlovable and asexual.

  22 April 2013 | RH Reality Check

• The Crime of Being Positive: the development of HIV laws in the 1980s

  In the 1980s corporations, conservatives, and fear turned HIV-positive people into outlaws.

  02 April 2013 | The Advocate

• A Spectacle of Stigma: A First-hand Account of a Canadian Criminal HIV Exposure Trial

  I recently attended the criminal HIV exposure trial of two young men in Kitchener, Ontario. Each was found guilty of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault for exposing (but not infecting) two other men to HIV. They are now liable for a Life Sentence

  02 April 2013 | AIDS Action Now

• Canadians' awareness, attitudes, knowledge and behaviours related to HIV and hepatitis C

  The Public Health Agency of Canada's most recent survey of the Canadian population confirms that, since 2003, HIV knowledge has been decreasing, while stigma against people living with HIV has not improved. The survey also found that Canadians do not perceive themselves to be at high risk for HIV or hepatitis C.

  28 March 2013 | CATIE

• The rise of online STI dating

  The rise of online dating for people with sex infections

  28 March 2013 | BBC Health

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