The Deafening Silence of AIDS

Cameron, Edwin

doi:10.2307/4065220

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“…For some individuals, not knowing one's HIV serostatus is far preferable to being tested (Cameron, 2000). Many fear that HIV testing is not confidential, which could lead to unwanted disclosure to family, employers and others in the community and ultimately lead to discrimination (Kayawe, Kelly & Baggaley, 1998;UNAIDS 2000).…”

Section: How Is Aids Stigma Manifested?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: What Have We Learned?

Brown

Macintyre²,

Trujillo³

2003

AIDS Education and Prevention

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This article reviews 22 studies that test a variety of interventions to decrease AIDS stigma in developed and developing countries. This article assesses published studies that met stringent evaluation criteria in order to draw lessons for future development of interventions to combat stigma. The target group, setting, type of intervention, measures, and scale of these studies varied tremendously. The majority (14) of the studies aimed to increase tolerance of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) among the general population. The remaining studies tested interventions to increase willingness to treat PLHA among health care providers or improve coping strategies for dealing with AIDS stigma among PLHA or at-risk groups. Results suggest some stigma reduction interventions appear to work, at least on a small scale and in the short term, but many gaps remain especially in relation to scale and duration of impact and in terms of gendered impact of stigma reduction interventions.

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Section: How Is Aids Stigma Manifested?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: What Have We Learned?

Brown

Macintyre²,

Trujillo³

2003

AIDS Education and Prevention

765

720

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“…Fear of stigma limits the efficacy of HIV-testing programs across sub-Saharan Africa, because in most villages everyone knows—sooner or later—who visits test sites [3,4]. While in some places the advent of free and accessible antiretroviral therapy has offered hope and encouraged people to go for testing, [5] stigma remains a barrier to testing even where treatment is available [6].…”

Section: Fear Of Stigma Fuels the Hiv Epidemicmentioning

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The Stigma of Being HIV-Positive in Africa

Rankin¹,

Brennan²,

Schell³

et al. 2005

PLoS Med

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“…In international HIV and AIDS programming this is complex, because systemic approaches can conspire towards orthodoxy. UN system responses to HIV and AIDS, for example, are generally constrained to politically neutral positions, given the need to win consent in the international arena, and the variety of actors whose points of view have to be taken into account (Cameron 2000). National governments may act more autonomously, but may not have sufficient will or economic and political power to do so.…”

Section: Rationalization and Resistance: Knowledge And Power In Hiv Pmentioning

confidence: 98%

Putting sexuality (back) into HIV/AIDS: Issues, theory and practice1

Boyce

Huang

Jenkins³

et al. 2007

Global Public Health

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After more than twenty years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmission of HIV (and addressing the needs of those most vulnerable to infection) the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow worldwide. Taking up this concern, this paper argues that one of the reasons why HIV prevention has had limited success is because of inadequate conceptualization of human sexuality in such work. Giving sexuality a more prominent position in responses to the epidemic raises a range of issues, including theorization of gender, understanding of sexual subjectivity, the significance of pleasure (or lack of pleasure) in sexual decision-making, and conceptualization of sexual behaviour and culture. Taking these themes forward entails asking significant questions about the underlying paradigmatic and methodological commitments of mainstream HIV/AIDS research, especially the tendency to reproduce accounts of human sexuality as if it were a measurable form of conduct only. Advocating new approaches that take the meaning and symbolic value of sexualities into account complicates established orthodoxies in the field whilst offering potential for more effective HIV prevention strategies.

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The Deafening Silence of AIDS

Cited by 26 publications

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Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: What Have We Learned?

Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: What Have We Learned?

The Stigma of Being HIV-Positive in Africa

Putting sexuality (back) into HIV/AIDS: Issues, theory and practice1

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