Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector

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ID2254202
AutoresAyaz Qureshi (0000-0002-0451-7838, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen28
Número4
Páginas1177-1191
Fecha de publicación2022-12-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9655.13815
OpenAlexW4293572115
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

NGOs often portray commercial sex workers, injecting drug users, transgender people (hijrae), and homosexual men as quasi-legal persons who are locked in a policing-criminality relationship with the state, and who therefore need them to mediate this relationship. By advancing such portrayals, NGOs in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector capitalize upon the presumed cultural difference of the so-called risk groups of HIV. They appropriate stigma against these groups as a strategy to access funds and to fortify their own position as brokers in the unstable donor-dominated funding landscape of HIV prevention. In doing so, the NGO leaders and members end up stabilizing stigma and reinforcing its attendant inequalities in the socially conservative environment of Pakistan. The discriminatory legal framework that criminalizes sex outside marriage and non-therapeutic use of drugs goes unchallenged by NGOs, despite their apparent support for universal human rights, partly because the status quo stabilizes these organizations' position as brokers between state and donor agencies and the so-called risk groups of HIV

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