PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV OFTEN EXPERIENCE INTERSECTIONAL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION, INCLUDING GENDER, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNICITY, AGE, DRUG USE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, MIGRATION STATUS AND MORE.
The Civil Society members of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board requested that urgency be added to UNAIDS Strategy of Zero Discrimination. The Global Partnership was created to address this urgency and reinvigorate the political commitment and action by Member States, UN, Civil Society Organizations and communities to end HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
This urgency aims to accelerate implementation and scale up of evidence-based programs and initiatives to end HIV-related stigma and discrimination; To close the data gap to inform policy and program implementation and demonstrate measurable progress towards eliminating all forms of HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
Social marginalization, stigma, discrimination and human rights abuses are often the reality for excluded groups worldwide, and these increase their vulnerability to HIV.
People living with or affected by HIV often experience intersectional forms of stigma and discrimination fuelled by multiple factors, including their HIV or other health status, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, disability, ethnicity, drug use, migration status, etc.
One in every eight people living with HIV report being denied health services . The removal of barriers that stigma and discrimination create in accessing HIV prevention, treatment and care services, is key to ending AIDS as a global public health threat.
The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate All Forms of HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination (henceforth called “The Global Partnership”) aims to accelerate implementation and scale up of evidence-based programs and initiatives to end HIV-related stigma and discrimination in countries. It will furthermore gather data to inform policy and program implementation and demonstrate measurable progress towards eliminating all forms of HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
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