What can be done to combat the stigma which surrounds HIV and AIDS?
In countries like Uganda, they have really seen that enabling people to address these issues for themselves have really helped people to understand how difficult it is for couples to negotiate condom use, for instance. The workplace initiatives that organisations like the Red Cross and the Standard Chartered Bank have been doing on sex and relationships work for all its staff, British and international, has really improved everyone’s understanding of the issues and made staff less judgmental and much more supportive of people with HIV. We would really like to see all agencies across government, as well as all big businesses across the globe help staff to learn for themselves in small group work what the issues are for them in their own lives. Once people understand how all this might relate to them too (such as the issues for them in their own relationships) they then become far less judgemental of others.
