UK Stigmaindex: Give Stigma the Index Finger - Launch 30 November 2009

 

The UK is the first country in Europe and one of the first in the world to undertake a full rollout of The People Living with HIV Stigma Index initiative— a pioneering community research and advocacy initiative that has been developed by and for people living with HIV to measure and document how people have experienced—and been able to challenge and overcome—stigma and discrimination relating to HIV.

More than 20 other countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific are also working with the Index supported by an International Partnership between GNP+, ICW, IPPF and UNAIDS. The UK initiative has been supported by the M.A.C. AIDS Foundation and the Scottish Government.

Join the launch of the findings and discuss how the evidence can improve the collective efforts to address stigma and meet the treatment, care and support needs of people living with HIV in the UK.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the community research team invite you to a briefing and drinks
reception on:

• Monday, 30 November 2009, 3 – 5:30pm
• Attlee Suite, Houses of Parliament, London

• Chair:
  • David Borrow MP, Chairman, The APPG on AIDS

• Speakers:
  • His Excellency Kenneth Kaunda, First President of the Republic of Zambia
  • Rt. Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health
  • Prof. Jane Anderson, Director: Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV, Homerton Hospital
  • Kevin Osborne, Senior HIV Advisor, IPPF
  • Annie Lennox, Singer, Songwriter and Activist and Founder of The SING Campaign

• RSVP by 25 Nov, spaces are limited
• www.stigmaindex.org and www.annielennoxsing.com

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