Teymur Noori at the EACS Standard of Care meeting. Photo by Bernard de Keyzer.Preliminary results from a survey of stigma and discrimination conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show that people living with HIV in Europe are as likely to have experienced stigma in recent years as a decade ago. This is particularly the case with some types of stigma experienced in healthcare settings, where the fear of stigma, and to some extent the reality, are if anything stronger than ever. These early results were announced at the fifth Standards of Care meeting organised by the European AIDS Clinical Society in Brussels last week.
The survey was devised in collaboration with three community organisations: the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), AIDS Action Europe, and the UK’s National AIDS Trust.
Read the full story at Aidsmap.
Source : Aidsmap
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