Describe an empowering, do-no-harm intervention to reduce or remove stigma relevant to your selected challenge

Describe an empowering, do-no-harm intervention to reduce or remove stigma relevant to your selected challenge.

Think about what intervention to remove or prevent stigma will look like, such as where you will do it and what format it will take. It's ok to think small -- or bigger. Your plan might focus on a workshop, building a game kit for children, a training for medical students, or a mobile phone app. There are thousands of possibilities, so follow your own relevant skills, experience, and passions. We recommend searching for case studies where there is evidence that an approach worked. It doesn't have to be evidence from the same population or the same disease, but your plan should be inspired by and include some anti-stigma strategies that have a good track record. Research regarding the stigma, disease, and poverty. 

Will this intervention mitigate or remove stigma, and do no harm? 

Question 1. Decide on one stigmatized disease condition that you will focus on for your do-no-harm stigma intervention. Some suggestions are Obesity/Weight-Related Stigma, HIV/AIDS stigma, Opioid/Addiction Stigma, etc

Question 2

How does COVID syndemically complicate your disease challenge and/or your intervention? 

Question 3

What have you identified as a suitable, ethical, evidence-based anti-stigma intervention? Describe what it looks like, and where and how you could implement it.

Question 4

Who will benefit most from your plan, and why? Who might possibly be harmed? 

Question 5

Why did you choose this approach rather than others? Please give details of your thought process as you weighed varied options. 

Question 6

What ethical or practical concerns do you think someone implementing your plan should be aware of and considering?