Orleu
“Reducing Intersectional and HIV Stigma among Women at Risk in Kazakhstan” (2023-2025)
Web site for participants (rus-kaz): https://orleu.ghrcca.org/
The project is funded by the FOGARTY International Center/National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in partnership with the Kazakh Scientific Center for Dermatology and Infectious Diseases, Almaty AIDS Center, and local NGOs. The project aims to reduce intersectional and HIV-related stigma among healthcare providers and women at risk for HIV prevention. It involves developing and evaluating an innovative, multilevel anti-stigma intervention for healthcare providers using evidence-based approaches. The intervention will be piloted in Almaty, with the outcome being crowdsourced materials on stigma reduction for future training of medical professionals in Kazakhstan.
Publications:
- Scaling Up HIV Self-Testing and Linkage to Care Among Women Who Exchange Sex and/or Use Drugs in Kazakhstan (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38917303/).
The project is conducted by the Kazakhstan Network of Women Living with HIV with the technical support of The Global Health Research Center of Central Asia(GHRCCA) and funded by UNAIDS and UNIFEM. We will start this research in 5 different regions of Kazakhstan: Almaty, Taldykorgan (Almaty region), Pavlodar, Aksu (Pavlodar region), Temirtau and Karaganda (Karaganda region), Shymkent (South Kazakhstan region) and Ust-Kamenogorsk, Zyryanovsk (East Kazakhstan region). In general, 10 sites will take part in the collection of data for the project. The availability of such data will form the basis for future research and services to solve and improve some of the social and medical problems among PLHIV and will fight against stigma and discrimination.