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ZUCCHI, Eliana Miura; PAIVA, Vera Silvia Facciolla  e  FRANCA JUNIOR, Ivan. A critical review on Aids stigma reduction interventions in Brazil: una revisión crítica. Temas psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.3, pp. 1067-1087. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2013.3-EE15PT.

We analyzed nine studies on psychosocial interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in Brazil. Interventions began in 1996, being the majority in progress in 2002, six years after antiretroviral therapy was made available in Brazil. Only one intervention was specifically aimed at establishing a work policy of anti-discrimination based on HIV. Other publications referred to HIV prevention programs with truck drivers and community living in a shantytown, men who have sex with men, healthcare for people living with HIV at workplace, as well as research on sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV. Interventions differed according to strategies, such as focus on provision of information on HIV infection, development of safer sex skills, and counseling in circumstances of actual or potential discrimination based on serostatus. As for HIV prevention projects, dealing with stigma related to 'promiscuity' and poverty was interpreted as promoting increase on safer sex practices. In the research context, the management of stigma was based on sharing lived or potential experiences of discrimination at work or in affective-sexual life. Analyses of AIDS stigma reduction interventions in Brazil are scarce and frequently part of HIV prevention programs at community-level or research carried out at STD clinics. The analysis of stigma reduction experiences in health services and NGOs has received little academic reflection.

Palavras-chave : Intervention; socio-psychology; stigma; AIDS.

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