Ssimusango: Multi-level intervention for intersectional stigma reduction to improve HIV outcomes for transgender women
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Funding Fogarty Program
Stigma HIV/AIDS
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Ssimusango: Multi-level intervention for intersectional stigma reduction to improve HIV outcomes for transgender women
Principal Institution
Infectious Diseases Institute
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Mujugira, Andrew; Nyblade, Laura
Project Contact Information
Email:
amujugira@idi.co.ug
Year(s) Awarded
2023-2026
Country
Uganda
Project Description
African transgender women (TGW) are a stigmatized and marginalized population with high HIV incidence, poor engagement in HIV care, and suboptimal ART and PrEP use. Multi-level interventions to reduce intersectional stigma and discrimination could improve HIV outcomes for TGW by addressing immediately modifiable stigma drivers, centering TGW at the core of the stigma response, engaging opinion leaders, and building partnerships with TGW. Stigma reduction and status-neutral approaches to HIV care have the potential to decrease HIV burden in this population—“the most vulnerable of the vulnerable”—and generate actionable data for scale-up and program implementation.
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