{"id":8675,"date":"2022-03-01T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/react-aph.org\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2022-07-29T00:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:45:27","slug":"go-and-talk-to-the-perpetrator-how-to-eliminate-stigma-and-discrimination-on-a-domestic-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/react-aph.org\/en\/go-and-talk-to-the-perpetrator-how-to-eliminate-stigma-and-discrimination-on-a-domestic-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Go and talk to the perpetrator: how to eliminate stigma and discrimination on a domestic level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Tajikistan, during 2020-2022 there were registered more than 1000 cases of human rights violations against people living with HIV and representatives of groups at risk<\/strong>. Nearly 60% of such appeals inform about violations by individuals in a form of domestic violence, eviction, stigma, and discrimination on a domestic level<\/strong>. Read detailed statistics here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stigma and discrimination in Tajik society<\/strong> are promoted and enrooted by repressive criminalizing laws <\/strong>in the country against people living with HIV. Ignorance and lack of information about HIV and AIDS provoke fear and hatred against HIV-positive family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatima*, 30 years old lives with HIV.<\/strong>
Fatima met a man and married him. He is also HIV-positive. They live together in his mother\u2019s home with her. The client\u2019s mother-in-law knows about the status of the client and her husband. She always insults, does not allow the client to go to the kitchen or to take the food from the fridge.<\/strong> She says: \u201cYou are not allowed to enter the kitchen! I will cook food for the family and you \u2013 have to do all cleaning up. I don\u2019t want to get infected with AIDS from you<\/strong>.\u201d At the time when the client wants to go to the mother-in-law’s bathroom, she does not allow, or completely cleans everything from the bathroom. And after that, if the client enters the bathroom, after she washes her entire bath with bleach and chemicals<\/strong>. The client says that she cannot share with her fellings with anyone. Asked for help to talk to the mother-in-law of the clients. The client’s husband agreed REActor to go and talk to his mother.<\/em><\/p>* name is changed<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the beginning of my work as a REActor, I heard from clients a lot of stories about domestic violence and hatred due to HIV status. The client\u2019s relatives were so scared of HIV, that they didn`t let one use the shared kitchen and bathroom! I understood, that these violations happen because people do not know how HIV can be transmitted, and how \u2013 not<\/strong>. All this was happening due to a lack of information. At that point I understood, that if we provide these people with accurate information on HIV transmission and prevention, maybe \u2013 they will stop discriminating their HIV-positive close ones<\/strong>.\u201d \u2013 tells one of REActor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the strategy \u201cto go and talk to the perpetrator<\/strong>\u201d was chosen as a reaction to such cases, registered in REAct. REActors were provided with informational brochures<\/strong> about HIV prevention and treatment. After the client appealed, REActor was coming to the client\u2019s family to explain that a discriminative attitude toward HIV-positive family members will not help to win a virus, otherwise \u2013 such an attitude just keeps a person far from treatment services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming back to Fatima\u2019s case, let’s analyze how this approach worked out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psycho-emotional support was provided, information was given on the rights of PLHIV, she was invited to the organization, and a social worker consulted her. The next day, a visit to Fatima\u2019s home was organized to talk to her mother-in-law. Full reliable information was given in an accessible language about HIV, VL, ARV therapy and adherence, about the rights of PLHIV, and about the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan. <\/strong>After that, the mother of the client’s husband was stunned and wordless. She did not believe that if taken at the time of the pill (ART), there would be no risk of HIV-positive person and there will be no risk of infection. \u201cHaving well believed you, I will no longer infringe on the rights of my daughter-in-law and son. Let’s see what happens tomorrow and in the future<\/strong>.\u201d \u2013 mother-in-law said. The client and her husband were very happy. In two months we contacted them again to find out about the situation in their home. Fatima assured us that her mother-in-law changed her attitude toward her and that everything is fine in their family.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Tajikistan, during 2020-2022 there were registered more than 1000 cases of human rights violations against people living with HIV and representatives of groups at risk. Nearly 60% of such appeals inform about violations by individuals in a form of domestic violence, eviction, stigma, and discrimination on a domestic level. Read detailed statistics here. 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