HIV infection

End stigma: UNFPA

“In adopting the Sustainable Development Goals, the international community committed to ending AIDS by 2030,” says the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

“This will only be achieved by ensuring everyone’s right to health. This right is jeopardised when people face stigma and discrimination, and when they lack information, services and agency.

“Stigma and discrimination, which remain concretely present in communities all over the world, play a particularly incendiary role in continuing HIV transmission.