How to Prevent HIV Stigma
Channel: Cove Behavioral Health
Date: 01/08/2023

HIV stigma and discrimination, are negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors about people with HIV. It is the prejudice that comes with labeling an individual as part of a group that is believed to be socially unacceptable.

Examples:

Believing that only certain groups of people can get HIV

Making moral judgments about people who take steps to prevent HIV transmission

Feeling that people deserve to get HIV because of their choices

Refusing casual contact with someone living with HIV

Socially isolating a member of a community because they are HIV positive

 
What can be done? Talk about it, take action through our everyday lives. 

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