HIV Awareness
VIDEO: Education key to addressing HIV-related stigma
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It's a good question. Stigma continues to be, in my mind, sort of the Achilles’ heel of HIV prevention, care and support. We need to address stigma in a lot very important ways, through education. We need to do a lot of normalization about what HIV is. But the most important thing is really the involvement of communities living with HIV, at risk [for] HIV. [This] is where community makes a huge difference because again, they're the ones really helping us address stigma head on.