Understanding and Challenging Stigma toward ... - Pact Cambodia

A13
Stigma and Discrimination
toward Men who Have
Sex with Men in the Clinic
Facilitator’s Note:
This exercise is designed for health care providers. It looks at the experience
of men who have sex with men (MSM) in using health facilities: how MSM are
treated, the specific forms of stigma they face, how it makes MSM feel and the
effect of the stigma on their health seeking behavior.
The exercise uses a story to help health workers identify the forms of stigma
mentioned in the story and then identify real forms of stigma in their own health
facilities.
Do this exercise after a general exercise to introduce the idea of stigma to health
workers (e.g., A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, or A6). This will help to prepare health workers
to name stigma in their own setting. The aim is to help health workers make a
frank and open assessment about stigma in their own health facilities.
Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will have:
Identified forms of stigma which discourage MSM from using clinics
Started to think about how to improve things in the clinic
Target Group:
Health care providers
Time:
1 hour
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