Poster (A3 size): International AIDS Conference, Washington DC, USA. 2012
Stigma is still one of the greatest barriers for people living with and affected by HIV accessing services and engaging in economic and social-wellbeing initiatives. This study explores the stigma experienced in faith communities in Zambia to inform evidence-based stigma reduction strategies to be developed and implemented by faith leaders in partnership with PLHIV.
Faith leaders and communities have information about HIV but survey responses indicated that they do not have enough. The lower levels of stigma reported (compared to sites in Kenya and Ethiopia) misrepresent a context where stigma is in fact so high among faith leaders that interviewers could not ask them to complete the survey for PLHIV, and instead asked them to complete the survey for people affected. Based on the results, faith leaders, with support from local PLHIV groups, developed a 12 month plan of action to reduce stigma.
A. Dodo(1), K. Banda(2), J. Hows(3), J. Kaybryn(4), H.S. Jones(5)
1.CAFOD, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2.NZP, Lusaka, Zambia, 3.GNP+, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4.Plurpol Consulting, Auckland, New Zealand, 5.CAFOD, Programme Effectiveness Unit, London, United Kingdom
Original Title
Zambia: What People Living with and affected by HIV want from their Faith Leaders: Reflections and data on stigma experienced by faith communities
Poster (A3 size): International AIDS Conference, Washington DC, USA. 2012
Stigma is still one of the greatest barriers for people living with and affected by HIV accessing services and engaging in economic and social-wellbeing initiatives. This study explores the stigma experienced in faith communities in Zambia to inform evidence-based stigma reduction strategies to be developed and implemented by faith leaders in partnership with PLHIV.
Faith leaders and communities have information about HIV but survey responses indicated that they do not have enough. The lower levels of stigma reported (compared to sites in Kenya and Ethiopia) misrepresent a context where stigma is in fact so high among faith leaders that interviewers could not ask them to complete the survey for PLHIV, and instead asked them to complete the survey for people affected. Based on the results, faith leaders, with support from local PLHIV groups, developed a 12 month plan of action to reduce stigma.
A. Dodo(1), K. Banda(2), J. Hows(3), J. Kaybryn(4), H.S. Jones(5)
1.CAFOD, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2.NZP, Lusaka, Zambia, 3.GNP+, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4.Plurpol Consulting, Auckland, New Zealand, 5.CAFOD, Programme Effectiveness Unit, London, United Kingdom
Poster (A3 size): International AIDS Conference, Washington DC, USA. 2012
Stigma is still one of the greatest barriers for people living with and affected by HIV accessing services and engaging in economic and social-wellbeing initiatives. This study explores the stigma experienced in faith communities in Zambia to inform evidence-based stigma reduction strategies to be developed and implemented by faith leaders in partnership with PLHIV.
Faith leaders and communities have information about HIV but survey responses indicated that they do not have enough. The lower levels of stigma reported (compared to sites in Kenya and Ethiopia) misrepresent a context where stigma is in fact so high among faith leaders that interviewers could not ask them to complete the survey for PLHIV, and instead asked them to complete the survey for people affected. Based on the results, faith leaders, with support from local PLHIV groups, developed a 12 month plan of action to reduce stigma.
A. Dodo(1), K. Banda(2), J. Hows(3), J. Kaybryn(4), H.S. Jones(5)
1.CAFOD, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2.NZP, Lusaka, Zambia, 3.GNP+, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4.Plurpol Consulting, Auckland, New Zealand, 5.CAFOD, Programme Effectiveness Unit, London, United Kingdom
What People Living With and Affected by HIV Want From Their Faith Leaders Reflections and Data On Stigma Experienced by Faith Communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zambia