aidsmap news story
A qualitative study of adolescents living with HIV in Malawi has found that outdated beliefs about HIV, and stereotypes of people with it, contribute to pervasive and persistent stigma against young people living with the virus. This does not only have adverse psychological effects but disadvantages them in practical ways, damaging their educational and employment prospects.
Deaths from AIDS have decreased fivefold in Malawi since their peak in 2004 and the country had achieved the UNAIDS 95-95-95 target by 2021, with 87% of people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy and virally suppressed.
Despite this, the researchers found, nearly all the respondents in the study – the only exception being HIV care providers – agreed that the most common stereotype about HIV infection was still that it was an inevitable death sentence.
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Source : aidsmap
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