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Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia

By: Anne Stangl,Dara Carr,Laura Brady,Traci Eckhaus,Mariam Claeson,Laura Nyblade

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Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia

By: Anne Stangl,Dara Carr,Laura Brady,Traci Eckhaus,Mariam Claeson,Laura Nyblade

Although overall HIV prevalence in South Asia is low, the widespread stigma attached to HIV and AIDS impedes efforts to reach people most in need of prevention, care, and treatment services. To address this challenge, the 2008 South Asia Region Development Marketplace partnership, led by the World Bank, launched a competitive grants program to support innovative community approaches. 'Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia' summarizes the monitoring, evaluation, and case study data and documents successful community innovations. Twenty-six community groups in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka received funds. The initiatives involved a broad spectrum, including vulnerable groups as well as people living with HIV, the media, local government authorities, health workers, and religious leaders. The interventions used traditional cultural and media approaches to discuss taboo subjects. The reach of the initiatives was amplifi ed by involving opinion leaders. The strategies engaged marginalized groups to design and lead the interventions and to facilitate contact between groups experiencing stigma and the general public to reduce fears and misconceptions about transmission. Projects that combined economic and stigma reduction interventions helped the marginalized populations to overcome the internalized stigma and become empowered to advocate for their rights. 'Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia' identifies effective strategies to raise awareness and reports on shifts albeit slow of attitudes, norms, and behaviors. Through its recommendations for successful interventions to reduce barriers to effective HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs, the book provides a strong foundation on which to build stigma reduction efforts in the region and world.

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World Bank Publications

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0821384511

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9780821384510

The Many Faces of Strategic Voting

Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World

By: John H Aldrich,André Blais,Laura B. Stephenson

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Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World

By: John H Aldrich,André Blais,Laura B. Stephenson

Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901125

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9780472901128

The Effects of Different Dimensions of HIV-related Stigma on HIV Testing Uptake Among Young Men and Women in Cape Town, South Africa

By: Brendan Maughan-Brown,Laura Nyblade,University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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The Effects of Different Dimensions of HIV-related Stigma on HIV Testing Uptake Among Young Men and Women in Cape Town, South Africa

By: Brendan Maughan-Brown,Laura Nyblade,University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

Although HIV-related stigma is known, in general, to deter HIV-testing, the extent to which different dimensions of stigma independently influence testing behaviour is poorly understood. We used data on young black men (n=553) and women (n=674) from from the 2009 Cape Area Panel Study to examine the independent effects of stigmatising attitudes, perceived stigma and observed-enacted stigma on HIV-testing. Multivariate logistic regression models showed that stigma had a strong relationship with HIV-testing among women, but not men. Women who held stigmatising attitudes were more likely to have been tested (OR 3, p

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Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia

Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia

The Many Faces of Strategic Voting

The Many Faces of Strategic Voting

The Effects of Different Dimensions of HIV-related Stigma on HIV Testing Uptake Among Young Men and Women in Cape Town, South Africa

The Effects of Different Dimensions of HIV-related Stigma on HIV Testing Uptake Among Young Men and Women in Cape Town, South Africa

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