RIATT-ESA releases A narrative review report of the impact of stigma and discrimination on migrant adolescents living with HIV in fragile contexts in the East and Southern Africa region

This narrative literature review for RIATT-ESA is motivated by a need to influence advocacy and HIV programming for adolescent migrants living with HIV in East and Southern Africa. Migrant adolescents are one of the most vulnerable groups in the region and face significant barriers to accessing HIV prevention, testing and treatment. There is an urgent need to address the gaps and inequalities that this population faces in HIV prevention and care in order to meet the global goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.

Stigma and discrimination against migrants and refugees is one significant factor that contributes to their increased vulnerability to HIV and AIDS. This review, therefore, aims at providing a contextualised understanding of the impact of stigma on migrant adolescents living in fragile contexts in East and Southern Africa where there is an accumulation of risk and limited state or community capacity to mitigate this risk. The review uses an ‘intersectional stigma’ framework to make sense of the complex interactions between the various forms of stigma that adolescent migrants living with HIV experience and how these forms of stigma create discrimination at both an interpersonal and institutional level.

More Details here: RIATT-ESA review_HIV stigma impacts