Slide 1: Combat Towards Stigma — Find out how to Communicate About HIV

Stigma hurts, however your phrases can heal. This fast information will educate you what to mention to assist ruin the stigma.

Slide 2: What’s HIV stigma?

What’s HIV stigma?

Unfavourable attitudes and ideology about other people with HIV.

How does stigma harm?

Stigma steadily results in discrimination.

Stigma makes other people really feel remoted and ashamed, and will stay them from getting the assist they want.

Slide 3: Girls and HIV

• 1 in 4 other people residing with HIV within the U.S. are girls.
• Of girls residing with HIV within the U.S., girls of colour have the easiest charges of HIV-related deaths.
• Girls of every age, races and ethnicities can get HIV.

Decreasing stigma can inspire girls to succeed in out to get the care they want.

Slide 4: What to mention: HIV fundamentals

HIV method human immunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV may end up in AIDS (bought immunodeficiency syndrome).

Don’t say: AIDS when regarding the human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus

As a substitute, say: HIV

💬 Do you know HIV will also be managed with the correct hospital treatment?

Slide 5: What to mention: Actual other people

An individual is a lot more than a scientific analysis.

Don’t say: Sufferers, sufferers, victims, infected, ill, positives, HIVers, carriers

As a substitute, say: Other folks/individual with HIV, other people/individual with AIDS, other people/individual residing with HIV and/or AIDS

💬 There are many ways in which other people residing with HIV can offer protection to their companions.

Slide 6: What to mention: Pals, now not enemies

Stigmatizing language turns other people in opposition to every different. Use your phrases to damage down limitations.

Don’t say: To struggle HIV and/or AIDS, warfare in opposition to HIV/AIDS, catch or go on HIV

As a substitute, say: Reaction to HIV and AIDS, be recognized with, achieve or transmit HIV

💬 Consciousness is a large a part of the reaction to HIV and AIDS.

Slide 7: What to mention: Actual is good

Actual phrases are higher for sharing correct knowledge.

Don’t say: Unprotected intercourse

As a substitute, say: Intercourse with out a condom

💬 Having intercourse with out a condom can put you in danger for buying HIV.

Slide 8: What to mention: Be actual about threat

Being common about threat may end up in blame the place it doesn’t belong.

Don’t say: Possibility, dangerous conduct, high-risk teams, drug customers

As a substitute, say: Populations with a excessive [rate], other people with [specific] threat elements, individuals who inject medicine

💬 Individuals who inject medicine are at excessive threat of having HIV.

Slide 9: What to mention: Undetectable = Untransmittable

If you happen to’re being handled for HIV and your viral lots are undetectable, you’ll be able to now not transmit the virus via intercourse.

Don’t say: If you happen to’re now not inflamed with HIV, you’ll be able to’t transmit the virus

As a substitute, say: Individuals who have an undetectable viral load don’t transmit the an infection via intercourse

💬 Other folks with undetectable viral lots cannot transmit the virus via intercourse.

Slide 10: Talk in opposition to stigma

The phrases we are saying topic.

Be informed HIV fundamentals so you understand the info.

Make a choice language that breaks stigma.

And talk up about what you understand.

This useful resource was once created with beef up from Gilead.