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| Abstract #19 - E-Posters English | ||||
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Session: 50.59: E-Posters English (Poster) on Sunday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Mr Henry Luyombya - Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT), Canada |
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| Additional Authors: Dr. Jordi Casabona, Sra Cristina Sanclemente, Dra. Anna Esteve, Dra. Victoria Gonzalez, Grupo HIVITS TS, | ||||
| Aim: Background: Ethnoracial communities in Canada have higher rates of HIV relative to the general population. HIV stigma has been identified as a barrier to HIV prevention, care and treatment in these communities. This presentation examines how different forms of data used in evaluating HIV-stigma reduction interventions in these communities contributed to understandings of stigma. | ||||
| Method / Issue: We collected data from 35 PHAs and 31 community leaders from the Asian, Black, and Latino communities in Toronto, Canada using pre- and post-intervention surveys and focus groups, activity logs, and review of Facebook discussions. Changes in, experiences of, and ways of understanding stigma were the focus of data analysis. | ||||
| Results / Comments: Statistically significant pre-to-post intervention changes in internalized and enacted stigma were found. Discussions documented from focus groups, Facebook, and activity logs contributed nuanced and in-depth understandings of stigma experiences, changes in thinking and attitudes, and the influence of the interventions to the knowledge based on statistical results. | ||||
| Discussion: Our study demonstrated the contribution of a methodologically diverse approach to building knowledge about a complex experience such as HIV stigma. Further, it allowed analysis at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community levels facilitating ontological and epistemological coherence in understanding the lived experience of stigma | ||||
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