Exchange no. 2, 2008
Challenging stigma
This issue of Exchange magazine is on HIV-related stigma, how it affects the health and well-being of people living with HIV and what can be done to reduce it. This issue highlights
the role that people living with HIV, and the networks and organizations lead by them, can play in diminishing stigmatizing attitudes, discriminatory actions and harmful policies.
After an overview article summarizing the main elements of an anti-stigma approach, examples follow of strategies taken by networks of PLWH in Ukraine, South Africa and India, as well as an HIV/AIDS programme in Ethiopia.
Reducing HIV-related stigma - components of an effective approach (pdf)
Article category: Editorial
HIV: death sentence or chronic and manageable disease? (pdf)
Article category: Insight
Changing attitudes of health providers and politicians towards women living with HIV in India
The Positive Muslims' approach to stigma, HIV, AIDS and PLWH (pdf)
Article category: Lessons
A theology of compassion translated into non-judgmental support for HIV-positive Muslims in South Africa
Working towards the decrease of stigma in Ukraine (pdf)
Article category: Experience
Strategies of the All-Ukrainian Network of People living with HIV/AIDS
Community Conversation as a catalyst for stima reducation and behaviour change (pdf)
Article category: Pilot
Lessons learned from a CARE project in Ethiopia
Online resources (pdf)
Article category: Online resources