{"id":7033,"date":"2015-11-01T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T11:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:22:40","slug":"tanzania-fighting-social-stigma-to-prevent-hiv-spread","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/tanzania-fighting-social-stigma-to-prevent-hiv-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Fighting social stigma to prevent HIV spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dar es Salaam, Tanzania &#8211;<\/strong> In a small room in a dusty back street, Hamisi and 12 other male sex workers are preparing for a long night of work.<\/p>\n<p>Just after dark, they stuff their pockets full of condoms and divvy up the nearby communities using markers and a hand-drawn map. From there, they head to the bars and alleyways across the city where men discreetly sell sex to other men.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0tonight, they are not selling sex. They are trying to get their peers to go to a government-run hospital for an HIV test &#8211; a hard sell in a country with a strong social stigma against homosexuality and\u00a0<a class=\"internallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2013\/06\/18\/treat-us-human-beings\/discrimination-against-sex-workers-sexual-and-gender\" target=\"_blank\">lengthy jail sentences <\/a> for men convicted of having sex with other men.<\/p>\n<p>That has not stopped gay rights activists such as Hamisi from demanding change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2015\/10\/tanzania-fighting-social-stigma-prevent-hiv-spread-151026070801315.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article on Al Jazeera.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"health-area":[],"how-we-work":[],"class_list":["post-7033","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"health-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/health-area?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"how-we-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/how-we-work?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}