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Power,Stigma,Violence,Mental Distress, and Programatic Responses within the Global HIV Epidemic
Power,Stigma,Violence,Mental Distress, and Programatic Responses within the Global HIV Epidemic
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Location: 802A (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC49 Mental Health and Illness (host committee) Language: English, French and Spanish
Despite major advances in HIV prevention and treatment,there are about 37 million infected individuals
world-wide. Many of these persons with HIV struggle with the profound mental stress associated with
the stigma and threat of violence associated with the illness. There is an increasing amount of data suggesting
that gener based violence(GBV) and the mental stress and trauma associated with it ,is both a cause and an
outcome of HIV infection. This session invites submissions which focus on programmatic responses to HIV
related stigma and violence and the mental stress and trauma associated with them. Submissions on responses
to gender based violence(GBV) and HIV are especially welcome as are abstracts on HIV programmatic responses
in developing areas of the world.
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Oral Presentations