Despite the progress made in the treatment of AIDS, and global attention moving on from AIDS to other diseases, people who are living with the virus often remain marginalised or forgotten in their own families and communities. This project will build on a previous successful workshop to explore the issue of stigmatisation with a further 60 people living with AIDS in the Coastal Region of Kenya, thus changing their relationships with their families and communities
Despite the progress made in the treatment of AIDS, and with global attention moving on from AIDS to other diseases, people who are living with the virus often remain marginalised or forgotten in their own families and communities. HIV/AIDS prevalence remains high in Kenya (6% among people aged 15-49), with over 1.6m people living with the disease and the incidences of stigmatisation remain high.
This project will build on a previous successful workshop to explore the issue of stigmatisation with a further 60 people living with AIDS in the Coastal Region of Kenya, enabling them to change their relationships with their families and communities, and to equip them with practical responses to cope better with the bias and misunderstanding they face on a daily basis.
Experience from the last workshop showed that participants leave the workshop more confident in themselves and went on to play fuller roles in their family and community life, as well as setting up their own small businesses. This workshop will reach 60 people, and they will become ambassadors in their own families, support groups and communities, thus multiplying the impact to potentially 120-150 people.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
