Living with Reduced HIV/AIDS Stigma and Discrimination: A Migrants-Theoretical Scheme

Abstract

As per the Global HIV and AIDS statistics—fact sheet released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) in 2021, the world had a total of 37.7 million people living with HIV in 2020 with adults of 36.0 million and children (0–14 years) of 1.7 million. Women and girls constitute 53% of total HIV population. About 16% of population did not know their HIV status in 2020 (UNAIDS in FACT SHEET—WORLD AIDS DAY 2021. https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/UNAIDS_FactSheet_en.pdf). India bears the world's third-largest HIV population with 2.3 million having 1.2 million with HIV incidence per 1000 population (all ages) being 0.04 (UNAIDS in Country factsheets INDIA 2020. https://www.unaids.org/en/regionscountries/countries/india). This chapter provides a theoretical scheme to reduce urban migration linked HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination using narratives of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) for data collection and Grounded Theory approach (Interpretative Approach) for its analysis. With socially responsible approaches to mass media, the study aims to understand the types of HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination present in our society; the ways by which HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination defeat HIV/AIDS reduction campaigns in society and finally the possible measures that can be taken to reduce the HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination?