Fighting stigma: Fighting stigma
Fighting stigma: communication: Fighting stigma: communication 1. Address misconceptions:
Increase awareness
Get people talking
Ways to raise taboo subjects:
Safe spaces
Symbols
Humor
Involve religious leaders
Public figures support PLWA
Fighting stigma: communication : Fighting stigma: communication Disclosure by PLWA
Helps people to identify with PLWA
Gives HIV “a human face”
Fighting stigma: communication: Fighting stigma: communication
Fighting stigma: communication: Fighting stigma: communication 4. Advocacy
“…a method and a process of influencing
decision makers and public perceptions about
an issue of concern, and mobilising community
action to achieve social change, including
legislative and policy reform…”
Fighting stigma: communication: Fighting stigma: communication 5. Personal commitment of leaders
Fighting stigma: measures to protect PLWA: Fighting stigma: measures to protect PLWA UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
(UNGASS 2001)
Fighting stigma: measures to protect PLWA: Fighting stigma: measures to protect PLWA
2. Organizational policies and training
Fighting stigma: measures to protect PLWA: Fighting stigma: measures to protect PLWA 3. PLWA need to know their rights and be
supported to take action against
discrimination
Fighting stigma: Care of PLWA: Fighting stigma: Care of PLWA With treatment and care, HIV/AIDS becomes a
manageable chronic illness, rather than a death
sentence
Haiti
Khayelitsha, South Africa