Please click on the link to download our Second newsletter which focuses on attitudes towards HIV.

 

Once you have read the newsletter, if you would like some additional material please look at the links below:  

   

AVERT: What is AIDS-related stigma? 

British Red Cross survey: "If your friend had HIV, what would you do?"

Guardian article by Alice Welbourn (2006): "A deadly silence"

Eldis web page with key research around HIV, stigma and discriminiation

 

ILO Workplace: 10 Policy Guidance

 

IPPF and ICW: Sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women

 

Global Coalition on Women and AIDS: Issues against girls and women living with HIV

 

HIV Stigma Index - a research and advocacy initiative to measure stigma and discrimination relating to HIV. Determining whether HIV related stigma is attributable to HIV status or because of associated behavior (e.g. sexual orientation; sex work; injecting drug use) or a combination of these factors is a key determinant of revised programmatic interventions. www.stigmaindex.org 

 

UNAIDS 2003 fact sheet, an overview of HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination

UN Convention on Disability Rights, 2008

 

WHO presentation by Alice Welbourn (2009): "Making lemonade out of lemons"