PEPFAR’s new strategy on HIV uses stigmatising language
International HIV/AIDS Alliance - "The ambitious new strategy of the US President’s Plan for AIDS Relief uses language that has no place in the global HIV response.
PEPFAR’s strategy for accelerating HIV/AIDS epidemic control (2017 – 2020) brings back stigmatising language from the dark ages of the AIDS response. It states: “PEPFAR will support programs that significantly decrease the number of HIV-positive positive [sic] transmitting individuals through the suppression of their viral load…” and, “Pursued in combination, these strategies will reduce the amount of HIV that is circulating in the populations…”
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance, believes that this language reinforces the concept of people living with HIV as vectors of disease and reverses progress made on the meaningful involvement of those most affected, in the response to HIV (International HIV/AIDS Alliance). (Photo: © PEPFAR)