SOC309Y1 Chapter : HIV and AIDS - related stigma and discrimination
Document Summary
Hiv and aids related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for action. Increased interest in hiv/aids related stigma internationally due to the negative social responses in seriously affected communities: rarely addressed issue paper addresses this. Highlights manner which stigma feeds upon, strengthens and reproduces existing inequalities of class, race, gender and sexuality. Jonathan mann, founding director of world health organization s former global programme on aids addressed the united nations general assembly. Distinguished 3 phases of aids epidemic in any community: epidemic of hiv infection typically enters every community silently and unnoticed. Important to develop more adequate conceptual framework on the study of stigma/discrimination, how it applies to hiv/aids and possible interventions to prevent. Stigmatization and discrimination as social processes y studies on stigma/discrimination emphasizes the complexity of hiv/aids. Some groups y are devalued, and others are felt superior in some way.
