In a session at AIDS 2024, the International AIDS Conference, global leaders and community advocates gathered to discuss why stigma and shame continue to attach themselves to an HIV diagnosis and why ...

HIV Stigma and discrimination in Kenya stands at 45%. According to the National AIDS Control Council, HIV related stigma and discrimination has been identified as impacting negatively on uptake of HIV ...

People living with HIV are facing stigma, discrimination and comparatively low life satisfaction, according to a survey of more than 4,500 patients in the U.K. The survey shows medicines have ...

Women living with HIV reported their experiences living with the disease, highlighting discrimination in their social lives. Reported discrimination in the social lives of women living with HIV (LWH) ...

Shadawn McCants, of Houston, was diagnosed with HIV at 17-years-old. Now 46, she says back in 1995 when she was diagnosed, it was a death sentence, and there was a lot of fear surrounding her ...

GENEVA, December 2 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres marked World AIDS Day with a call on the refugee agency's staff to join the campaign to end discrimination against ...

Today marks a significant step forward in the fight against HIV-related stigma as the National Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NAPWA) launched the HIV Stigma Index 2.0 report. This ...

At the beginning of this year, three states — Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina — continued to segregate its prisoners with HIV from the rest of the prison population. In March of this year, we ...

THE National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has launched the HIV/AIDS Zero Stigma Campaign in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, renewing calls to end discrimination against persons ...

At the same time, everyone wants to be comfortable, at work, school, or socially, and failure to reveal a hidden disability ...

I was in form two when my father was diagnosed to be HIV positive. I had to leave school and look after my father because he was so ill and no one was there to take care of him. My mother had divorced ...