Impact Case Study – HIV-related stigma & discrimination

Category
Publication Subtitle

Stigma Framework and Measurement (STRIVE)

Publication year

2017

Publication Author

Anne Stangl, with input from Iman Barre, Annie Holmes and Mitzy Gafos

Tackling HIV-related stigma and discrimination is critical if we are to reduce and even end the AIDS epidemic. Effective stigma reduction requires an accurate understanding of the different ways in which it operates and standardized measures to identify it and design and monitor efforts to address it.

ICRW, a partner in the STRIVE consortium, led collaborative efforts to develop a global stigma-reduction framework and test standardized measures of HIV stigma and discrimination. Since the publication of the framework in 2012, ICRW has led efforts to ensure adoption of the framework by key agencies.

Questions capturing key stigma domains articulated in the framework are now included in the standard survey of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). As a result, stigma data are now reported annually by all UN member countries through the Global AIDS Monitoring process and also in the U.S. State Department’s Annual Human Rights report since 2015.

To learn more about the consortium’s work and to download the technical brief, click here.

And here is our impact case study published July 2017.