HIV-related stigma and discrimination can subject women who are living with HIV to additional risk of violence.
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This success is the result of technological advances, increased access to treatment, and a reduction in stigma and discrimination.
"It highlights our need to tackle stigma and discrimination and to ensure vulnerable groups have equal access to care and treatment".
When HIV, AIDS came onto the scene there was a lot of stigma and discrimination because, oh, well, it's homosexuals, drug users.
Other benefits include reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, since addressing HIV will be part of normal core services within a health facility.
Fenton and Wilson said removing stigma and discrimination are necessary first steps.
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Besides the needs for effective prevention and treatment, this experience of stigma and discrimination points to the need to promote greater respect for their human rights (1).
SIDACULT, strengthened and renewed within the United Nations System, offers new proposals through original and daring approaches in the promotion of dialogue and social cohesion to fight against stigma and discrimination.
And third, by failing to breast-feed, a mother in many parts of Africa is in effect announcing that she has the virus, and thus exposing herself to both stigma and discrimination.
All people have the right to education, information and services that will enable them to avoid HIV infection, and for those living with HIV, to have the best possible quality of life free from stigma and discrimination.
When looking at how all of us can maintain and strengthen our engagement in the AIDS response, I am fully committed that UNESCO will continue to address the social and structural factors that fuel the epidemic, including gender inequality and stigma and discrimination, and to empower young people to make healthy, informed decisions.
The result is often further stigma, discrimination and social exclusion.
Discrimination and stigma has been one of the root causes that make MSM and Trans Gender (TG) people unable or unwilling to access health services.
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