This session explores the political, economic and sociological manifestations of HIV related stigma, discrimination and human rights violations on the global level articulated by civil society through our 2018-2022 organizational strategic planning survey, the State of People Living with HIV around the World: Back to Basics.

The session will provide attendees with:
• An up-to-date global perspective of where stigma, discrimination and human rights violations are increasing and decreasing
• An understanding of the structural and institutional drivers of these trends
• An overview of the impact, costs and consequences of HIV related stigma from the individual to societal level
• An examination of innovative ways that community concerns can be addressed via pragmatic interventions at the local, national and global levels.

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