What We Do
Our efforts to help lower rates of discrimination, promote gender equality, and reduce gender-based violence in Jamaica include a wide range of activities. These include working with healthcare providers and community leaders, and helping the government strengthen its national policy response. Specifically, HP+ helps control the country's HIV epidemic by:
- Working with the Jamaican Ministry of Health to implement and evaluate a comprehensive package for reducing stigma and discrimination toward people living with HIV and key populations—particularly men who have sex with men, sex workers, and transgender individuals—in health facility settings
- Training healthcare providers and national health leaders to understand how key populations experience gender-based violence, as a basis for promoting measures that increase the reporting of such assaults and stimulating a more effective linkage to care for those assaulted and their dependents
- Orienting healthcare workers, people living with HIV, key population community leaders, and others to the Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention operational guidelines created by GNP+ and UNAIDS
- Working with government and civil society partners to strengthen Jamaica's national system for reporting and seeking redress for discrimination, including the reporting of discrimination at the facility level
