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8B. HIV: Epidemiology, Prevention & Public Health - Challenging HIV stigma: measuring stigma and discrimination and their impacts in healthcare and other settings, and the development of effective responses.

Tracks
Track 2
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
C4.9

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Chairs:
Kirsty Machon, Positive Women Victoria
Bo Justin Xaio, ACON

This symposium will explore stigma surrounding HIV and same-sex attraction, examining how it is enacted, experienced, measured, and its impact at individual, workplace, national, and structural levels. Stigma among healthcare workers will be a particular focus Strategies to support the development of community-led responses to stigma will be discussed, and examples presented.


Speaker

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Mr Teymur Noori
Expert Hiv
ECDC

Cross-country survey on experiences of stigma among people living with HIV in Europe

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Biography

Teymur Noori is a psychologist and works at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as an expert on monitoring an evaluation. He is primarily responsible for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals as they pertain to HIV in Europe and Central Asia. Teymur also leads ECDC work on migrant health and infectious diseases.
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Professor Carla Treloar
Scientia Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre
UNSW Sydney

Addressing HIV stigma in healthcare. The impact of HIV stigma among healthcare workers, and strategies to reduce stigma in healthcare

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Biography

Carla Treloar is Scientia Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW, Sydney
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Dr Karinna Saxby
Research Fellow
The University Of Melbourne

Quantifying the impact of stigma on health and health service use of sexuality and gender diverse populations

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Karinna is a health economist at the University of Melbourne. Karinna is dedicated to advancing equity for historically disadvantaged or marginalised populations, with a focus on LGBTQ+ Australians, Indigenous peoples, and people with disability. Her research explores how structural stigma shapes inequities in healthcare access and health.
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Dr Lucy Stackpool-moore
Managing Director
Watipa

Addressing HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination: Building on what we know and promoting community-driven research and action

4:30 PM - 4:40 PM

Biography

Lucy is the Manaing Director of the social enterprise, Watipa, that provides ethical consultancy services and supports community-led actions. Formerly a Director of the International AIDS Society in Geneva, and a Commissioner on the IAS~Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights, she also tutors in Global Health with LSHTM (UK).
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Mr Matthew Vaughan
Director HIV & Sexual Health
ACON

Community responses to stigma: ACON’s Allies campaign

4:40 PM - 4:50 PM

Biography

Matthew is the Director for HIV Sexual Health, where he leads the strategy and development of the multi award-winning campaign Ending HIV, which seeks to end HIV transmissions in NSW. Matthew has been working within the community services sector for the past 15 years working in a variety of roles within government, non-government and community-based organisations at state, national and international levels. Matthew has a love of technology and digital media, and specialises in how that passion can be used to build effective behaviour change interventions.
HIV&AIDS 2024

Panel Discussion

4:50 PM - 5:15 PM

Biography

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Mr Teymur Noori
Expert Hiv
ECDC

Panelist

Biography

Teymur Noori is a psychologist and works at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as an expert on monitoring an evaluation. He is primarily responsible for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals as they pertain to HIV in Europe and Central Asia. Teymur also leads ECDC work on migrant health and infectious diseases.
Phd Bernard Saliba
Phd Candidate / Senior Lecturer of Public Health
Kirby Institute & UTS School of Public Health

Panelist

Biography

Bernard is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, UTS, and a PhD student at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. His area of research is in intersectionality, specifically on the impact of culture on the health of sexual and ethnic minority people.
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Dr Karinna Saxby
Research Fellow
The University Of Melbourne

Panelist

Biography

Karinna is a health economist at the University of Melbourne. Karinna is dedicated to advancing equity for historically disadvantaged or marginalised populations, with a focus on LGBTQ+ Australians, Indigenous peoples, and people with disability. Her research explores how structural stigma shapes inequities in healthcare access and health.
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Dr Lucy Stackpool-moore
Managing Director
Watipa

Panelist

Biography

Lucy is the Manaing Director of the social enterprise, Watipa, that provides ethical consultancy services and supports community-led actions. Formerly a Director of the International AIDS Society in Geneva, and a Commissioner on the IAS~Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights, she also tutors in Global Health with LSHTM (UK).
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Professor Carla Treloar
Scientia Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre
UNSW Sydney

Panelist

Biography

Carla Treloar is Scientia Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW, Sydney

Chair

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Kirsten Machon
Executive Officer
Positive Women Victoria

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Justin Xiao
Community Health Promotion Officer - Sexualised Drug Use
ACON

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