PLHIV Stigma Index

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PLHIV Stigma Index

The People Living with HIV Stigma Index provides a tool that measures and detects changing trends in relation to stigma and discrimination as experienced by people living with HIV.

The Index is a joint initiative of organizations who have worked together since 2004 to develop this survey. These include:

The Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+);
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW);
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF); and
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

People living with HIV are at the centre of the process as both interviewers and interviewees and as drivers of how the information is collected, analyzed and used. The Index is designed to increase the understanding of how stigma and discrimination is experienced by people living with HIV. The data gained can then be used by the national implementing partners to shape future programmatic interventions and policy change.

The process for implementing the index in each country is unique, drawing on the strengths and diversity of the different partners. The international partnership guiding this work asks that each country implementation partnership remains committed to the ethos of the Index overall ensuring that it remains by, and for, people living with HIV. To learn more about the Index, please visit the website.

People Living with HIV evaluate Red Cross Red Crescent efforts on AIDS and TB in Europe

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

GNP+ has recently supported the Belarus PLHIV Community to be part of an evaluation team looking at work carried out the European Regional Network on AIDS and TB of the Red Cross Red Crescent (ERNA).

Although there was much appreciation for the outreach towards the most vulnerable in humanitarian contexts by individual Red Cross/Red Crescent National Societies, there was also a view that this was not always sufficiently nuanced - especially at a national level - to the needs of people living with HIV.

In addition, there was evidence to suggest that National Societies, and indeed the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, had failed to effectively communicate the challenges and opportunities presented by the unique position and structure of the RC.

The full evaluation report can be accessed here in pdf English 1.3 Mb and pdf Russian 1.8 Mb .

Five country teams present PLHIV Stigma Index results at AIDS 2011 Conference - 25-27 May 2011, Talinn

Tuesday, 07 June 2011

At the conference "HIV in European Region - Unity and Diversity" (25 - 27 May 2011, Tallinn) networks of people living with HIV from Estonia, Moldova, Poland, Turkey and the Ukraine shared the challenges, successes, and initial results of implementing the PLHIV Stigma Index in each of their respective countries.

New report: Late testing, late treatment: HIV-related stigma

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

The results from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index study, “HIV-related Stigma: Late Testing, Late treatment,” confirm an alarming number of people living with HIV seek testing and access care late. These are the results from interviews with more than 2,500 people living with HIV in Estonia, Poland, Moldova, Ukraine, and Turkey. These findings were presented on May 25, 2011 at the European conference HIV in European Region: Unity and Diversity in Tallinn, Estonia.

Ukraine presents results PLHIV Stigma Index

Friday, 15 April 2011

Stigma_index_ukraine-W70 Results from the PLHIV Stigma Index in the Ukraine show that stigma, discrimination and human rights violations against people living with HIV are extensive throughout the country.

The PLHIV Stigma Index in the Ukraine was implemented and led by the All-Ukrainian Network of People living with HIV.

The results were first presented at the Regional Consultation on Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support in Europe and Central Asia, in Kiev on the 16-17 March 2011.

PLHIV Stigma Index update 2010

Friday, 19 November 2010

During past months several more networks of people living with HIV in countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe have been working with implementing the People Living with HIV Stigma Index. A lot of results have been pre-published during AIDS2010, the International AIDS Conference in Vienna last July.