HIV Infection: Discrimination

(asked on 22nd May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 7th June 2019

In April 2016, Public Health England (PHE) commissioned a four-year national HIV prevention programme for most at-risk populations, for men who have sex with men, Black African communities and other groups, in whom there is as higher or emerging burden of infection. To reduce levels of HIV-related stigma within affected communities and more widely, the programme manages a national partnership of multi-sector organisations across England to deliver a range of information and resources that will improve the proportion of individuals in the most at-risk populations who are able to make safe and sustainable sexual health choices. These resources can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.hivpreventionengland.org.uk/

PHE’s HIV Prevention Innovation Fund has allocated funds to projects addressing HIV stigma through innovative, community-led interventions. This has included the reduction of HIV related stigma as a priority since 2015. This fund can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovative-hiv-prevention-projects-reached-170000-people-in-2018

The People Living with HIV Stigma Survey UK will run from January to July 2019. More information on the survey and the 2015 report can be found at the following link:

http://www.stigmaindexuk.org/

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