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An assessment of the Positive Partnership Project in Thailand: key considerations for scaling-up microcredit loans for HIV-positive and negative pairs in other settings

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Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), and their families, remains a barrier to participation in prevention and care programmes. This barrier takes on added sign ...

Last updated on July 14 2011 at 18:26

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What accounts for differences in HIV stigma across different high prevalence settings? This study was designed to examine HIV stigma and discrimination in five high prevalence settings. Qualitative da ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 15:57

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From August 2002 through January 2004, the Institute for Social Development Studies and the International Center for Research on Women conducted research on HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discriminat ...

Last updated on July 19 2011 at 17:57

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BACKGROUND: The severity of HIV/AIDS pandemic linked to injecting drug use is one of the most worrying medical and social problems throughout the world in recent years. Myanmar has one of the highest ...

Last updated on October 11 2011 at 16:58

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HIV/AIDS-related stigma has been linked to poor adherence resulting in drug resistance and the failure to control HIV. This study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine stigma and i ...

Last updated on April 11 2013 at 21:55

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This report provides findings from the rollout of the People Living with HIV Stigma Index (PLHIV Stigma Index) in nine countries in Asia and the Pacific (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Myanmar, Pa ...

Last updated on May 24 2012 at 16:03

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AIM OF STUDY: This study examines the beliefs and attitudes of Singapore doctors, dentists, and nurses concerning HIV/AIDS and persons living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs). METHOD: A mail survey was done of a ...

Last updated on November 10 2011 at 18:43

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HIV and AIDS related stigma has long been recognized as a main obstacles to prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS.

Last updated on July 19 2011 at 18:10

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Pregnant and postpartum women with HIV often face stigma and discrimination at home and in the community. In Vietnam, associations between HIV and the "social evils" of drug use and sex work contribut ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 18:08

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A regional discussion on HIV transmission in intimate partner relationships was initiated by UNAIDS through a regional meeting on Women and HIV in Cambodia in July 2006. Subsequently, UNAIDS convened ...

Last updated on April 28 2011 at 15:44

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Khuat Thu Hong from Institute for Social Development Studies presents lessons learned from research, advocacy and intervention at a conference.

Last updated on April 25 2011 at 16:14

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HIV-related stigma and resulting discrimination is a key barrier to all HIV activities from prevention to care and treatment. A recent study investigating the causes, manifestations and consequences o ...

Last updated on April 12 2011 at 15:59

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We systematically examine community reaction to persons living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) and their older parents in Thailand. We focus on parents as well as PHAs because parents are major providers of care ...

Last updated on July 14 2011 at 17:38

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In Vietnam, stigma and discrimination toward people living with HIV and AIDS has been recognized as an important issue, as these individuals frequently suffer ill treatment in the community in general ...

Last updated on April 12 2011 at 15:46

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Assessment of quality of life (QoL) in persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is becoming crucial to research and evidence-based practice in this area. This paper describes the analysis of the WHOQOL HI ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 16:58

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Abstract Background: People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in developing countries are rarely consulted about ways to promote their health and well-being. This study sought to identify and understand, f ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 15:10

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We investigated human rights concerns related to migration, living and working conditions, and access to HIV/AIDS services and reproductive health services for Burmese women in Thailand. Vulnerability ...

Last updated on October 11 2011 at 16:53

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Nearly 600 000 people are living with HIV in Thailand. As in every other country, most are poor and many are isolated from their communities. Breaking down the mutually reinforcing barriers of poverty ...

Last updated on April 29 2011 at 22:21

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HIV prevention within maternal-child health services has increased in many developing countries, but many HIV-infected women in developing countries still receive insufficient postnatal care. This stu ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 20:56

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The purpose of this review paper is to provide information and guidance to those in the health care setting about why it is important to combat HIV-related stigma and how to successfully address its c ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 17:13

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This paper examines the culturally shaped meanings of AIDS and perceptions of accidental occupational exposure to HIV among a group of twenty nurses in Bangkok, Thailand. The findings are based on dat ...

Last updated on May 31 2011 at 20:32

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BACKGROUND: Stigma is a key barrier for the delivery of care to patients living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). In the Asia region, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has disproportionately affected socially marginalised g ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 15:59

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BACKGROUND: The negative effects of stigma on persons living with HIV (PLHIV) have been documented in many settings and it is thought that stigma against PLHIV leads to more difficulties for those who ...

Last updated on October 11 2011 at 17:19

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The authors of this article discuss the effects of shame and stigma on female caregivers of people living with AIDS in southern Thailand. They conducted a longitudinal ethnographic case study over 8 m ...

Last updated on May 26 2011 at 20:10

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The laws in Vietnam provide a framework within which one may judge the nature and type of health are-related discrimination to which people living with HIV (PLWHA) are subject. Despite the existence o ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 19:54

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We assessed the relation between accurate beliefs about HIV transmission and inaccurate beliefs about HIV transmission and emotional reactions to people with AIDS (PWA) and AIDS risk groups, stigmatiz ...

Last updated on May 24 2011 at 16:08

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Background—People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Thailand face tremendous challenges,including HIV-related stigma, lack of social support, and mental health issues such as depression. This study aims ...

Last updated on November 17 2011 at 13:48

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In this paper, community attitudes toward women living with HIV and AIDS at the present time from the perspectives of women in Thailand are examined. We also look at strategies women use in order to d ...

Last updated on May 12 2011 at 20:06

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Issues: The multifaceted nature of HIV/AIDS calls for interventions, which are holistic. These interventions shared focus on medical care, counseling, with focus on orphan support. In TASO, support to ...

Last updated on May 12 2011 at 15:58

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Backgroud: The Enhancing Care Initiative for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Northern Thailand (ECI-Thai) project is a multisectoral and multidisciplinary project. The project had implemented five area ...

Last updated on May 23 2011 at 16:12

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The study explores the meanings of sex among migrant coal miners in Vietnam and identifies contextual factors influencing engagement in unsafe sexual practices. Findings reveal that sex carries a numb ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 16:48

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The problems that face HIV/AIDS patients are now fairly well documented. These include experiences of guilt, anger, grief, fear of abandonment, and potential economic hardship and marginalization due ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 17:17

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Sex between men continues to be a misunderstood and underaddressed risk environment for HIV transmission in Cambodia. As in many other countries, men who have sex with men (MSM) in Cambodia are stigma ...

Last updated on May 3 2011 at 19:26

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To address HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and improve the quality of care in the healthcare setting in Vietnam, the Institute for Social and Development Studies (ISDS), ICRW and the Horizons P ...

Last updated on May 3 2011 at 16:21

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Since 2002, the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS) and ICRW have been working with the Communist Party of Viet Nam to fill knowledge gaps about stigma, build stigma-reduction capacity amo ...

Last updated on April 28 2011 at 16:06

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This study was initiated by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) after a meeting of 200 HIV positive women from all over the world in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995. It re ...

Last updated on April 27 2011 at 22:39

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This document is based on a review of all published abstracts and journal articles from January 1990 to December 2001 identified through a comprehensive search of five medical and social science elect ...

Last updated on April 28 2011 at 15:32

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Bangladesh is stoking an emerging AIDS epidemic with violent police abuse of sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men. In this 51-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rapes ...

Last updated on April 28 2011 at 15:25

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Cambodia's HIV/AIDS epidemic is concentrated among key populations at higher risk, including a diverse community of men who have sex with men as well as women. In response, governments and civil socie ...

Last updated on April 27 2011 at 17:59

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Evidence from an ICRW-led multi-country study in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia shows that the key causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS-related stigma have many more similarities than differenc ...

Last updated on December 20 2011 at 20:15

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Cambodia's HIV/AIDS response is focused on key populations at higher risk, including entertainment workers, or female workers in entertainment establishments such as beer gardens or karoke bars who ma ...

Last updated on May 7 2011 at 03:25

Drug Addiction and HIV

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Drug-related stigma remains high in Vietnam, where there is a growing problem of illegal drug use and addiction, with serious impacts on the health and well-being of individuals, families and communit ...

Last updated on April 27 2011 at 17:29

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Vietnam has a growing problem of illegal drug use and addiction, which has a serious impact on the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. This problem is closely linked to HI ...

Last updated on October 26 2011 at 20:25

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BACKGROUND: Changing community norms to increase awareness of HIV status and reduce HIV-related stigma has the potential to reduce the incidence of HIV-1 infection in the developing world. METHODS: W ...

Last updated on November 10 2011 at 17:28

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Background: Since the early days of the HIV epidemic, stigma has been recognized as strongly linked to HIV. In concentrated HIV epidemic settings such as Vietnam, stigma is also associated with key ...

Last updated on October 11 2011 at 13:25

STIGMA Foundation in Indonesia

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Integrating strategies to address gender inequity and change harmful gender norms is an increasingly important component of HIV programs. However, gender integration among programs targeting most-at-r ...

Last updated on September 26 2011 at 20:48

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Efforts have been made to improve the social environment of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Thailand but have not been assessed in terms of their quality of life (QOL). In this study, we prelim ...

Last updated on July 28 2011 at 16:18

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We conducted a qualitative study to explore the pathways by which traditional gender roles may ultimately affect Vietnamese women's interpretation of sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms and he ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 19:37

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HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination have a substantial impact on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA). The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine the associations of two constructs of HI ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 19:34

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Stigma and discrimination concerning HIV/AIDS has been shown to be a barrier to HIV prevention, voluntary counseling and testing, and care in many international settings. Most published stigma scales ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 19:27

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BACKGROUND: While HIV/AIDS is increasing in Vietnam, very few published studies focus on HIV-related stigma in Vietnam. This study reports on findings from a community development project to reduce H ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 19:19

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Pervasive stigma has surrounded HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the pandemic. In Southeast Asia, as elsewhere, it has been accompanied by discrimination, affecting transmission patterns and access to ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 16:45

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Practical tools and strategies can help HIV-affected communities identify and tackle stigma and discrimination. This toolkit, adapted for use in Cambodia, is designed for community leaders, AIDS educa ...

Last updated on April 26 2011 at 17:17

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In this ethnographic study, I examine personal, kinship, and social obligations and the role of women in the traditional Thai family. Under what circumstances do women take on the responsibility to ca ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 18:03

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Ruili is a small border town between China and Myanmar where drugs and commercial sex are common, and rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV, are high. A qualitative study was car ...

Last updated on July 26 2011 at 21:05

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In the recent scale-up of antiretroviral treatment, gender differences in access to treatment have been reported. In Thailand, as the HIV epidemic became more generalised, there has been a shift from ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 20:01

AIDS Discrimination in Asia

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From July 2001 to November 2002, the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS conducted the first regional documentation of AIDS-related discrimination in Asia. The project is an action-bas ...

Last updated on July 19 2011 at 18:00

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Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) are a pressing problem in Vietnam, in particular because of propaganda associating HIV with the ‘‘social evils’’ of sex work and d ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 17:44

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OBJECTIVE: To develop scales to measure tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS stigma in a developing world context. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of tuberculosis patients in southern Thailand, who were asked to ...

Last updated on November 8 2011 at 17:35

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This paper explores HIV/AIDS stigma in the socio-cultural context of Nakhon Ratchasima Province in the northeastern region of Thailand. Action research was used to develop a community participation in ...

Last updated on November 10 2011 at 17:32

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Recently, large increases have been noted in injection drug use and HIV prevalence in Indonesia. Because voluntary HIV counseling and testing can play an important role in HIV prevention, it is import ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 15:17

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Gender norms affect the behavior and life choices of both men and women. In Vietnam, these norms sometimes drive people into situations where they are at increased risk of violence, STI acquisition, a ...

Last updated on December 5 2011 at 22:48

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Injecting drug use has now been documented in 135 countries, 110 of which also report HIV transmission through contaminated needles, syringes and other injecting equipment. Worldwide 5 to 10 million p ...

Last updated on April 6 2011 at 18:50

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As the AIDS epidemic continues to overwhelm the acute care hospital system in Thailand, an increasing number of family members are required to provide care for persons living with AIDS (PLWA) in their ...

Last updated on November 17 2011 at 18:52

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This paper outlines a six-country study of institutionalised forms of HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in the Asia-Pacific region. Although recognised as a barrier to disease prevention and treatment, ...

Last updated on November 10 2011 at 16:19

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This paper analyzes the interrelationships between the stigma of HIV/AIDS stigma and the co-stigmas of commercial sex (CS) and injecting drug use (IDU). Students of a Bangkok nursing college (N=144) w ...

Last updated on November 15 2011 at 16:03

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