Adolescents and Youth with Disability - Issues and Challenges

This paper reviews issues that must be considered in assessing the needs of disabled young people and urges the inclusion of this all too frequently overlooked group in all international development policies and programming.

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The Africa Campaign on Disability and HIV/AIDS

The Africa Campaign is led by the Secretariat of the African Decade for Disabled Persons (1999 - 2009) and Handicap International and operates through individual commitments and networks in Africa and worldwide.

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The Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities Quarterly Newsletter on human rights, development and disability

The African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (1999-2009) is a collaborative initiative of the African Union, African Governments, UN Agencies and NGO’s working with disability and development. The Decade is administered by a secretariat that is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Global summary of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, December 2005

PowerPoint presentation with the global summary of the HIV / AIDS epidemic. This document contains information such as the regional HIV and AIDS statistics and features, global estimates for adults and children, adults and children estimated to be living with HIV as of end 2005, among many more informative data.

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Access to HIV and AIDS services and programmes for people with disabilities

There are people with disabilities (PWD) in all parts of the world and at all level in every society. The number of PWD’s in the world is large and is growing. The causes and consequences of disability vary throughout the world, due to different socio-economic circumstances. It is widely acknowledged that social factors such as ignorance, neglect, superstition have negatively impacted on the lives and socio-economic conditions of PWD’s..

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Guidelines for Inclusion of Individuals with Disability in HIV/AIDS Outreach Efforts

This paper is intended to provide guidelines for the inclusion of individuals with pre-existing disabilities in HIV/AIDS outreach efforts. It is based on a synthesis of materials collected in the course of the Global Survey on HIV/AIDS and Disability by the World Bank and Yale University. (World Bank: 2004) We propose here a three part typology which constitutes a continuum of inclusion in and access to HIV/AIDS services.

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HIV/AIDS - Are your rights respected?

GALA has produced this comic as part of our Deaf Oral History Project and Outreach Programme. John Meletse who is Deaf, gay and HIV positive is the co-ordinator of this programme. The comic looks at issues of sexual violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), HIV and different sexualities in the Deaf community.

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Disability as part of the life cycle and inclusive development

In the article, as our reference, we draw on an approach from the disability perspective, seeking to expand it to contemplate the various segments comprising society, especially the groups in situations of vulnerability. The approach does not discriminate, but rather promotes difference, appreciates diversity, and transforms it into an advantage, a value, an opportunity, and a right.

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HIV/AIDS & Disability: Capturing Hidden Voices

Disability is often addressed as a medical concern. While some individuals with disability do have health issues and rehabilitation needs, there is a growing realization that the greatest problems they face are social inequity, poverty, and lack of human rights. Indeed, the United Nations has clearly stated that one can be both disabled and healthy.

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Signs of Health for All: HIV/AIDS and People with Disability

1.6 million Latin Americans were living with HIV in 2005, an increase of 300 thousand since the year 2003. During the same period, the number of HIV-related deaths in Latin America increased from 36 thousand to 62 thousand..

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AIDS in Latin America - UNADIS and World Health Organization fact sheet

Primarily due to their large populations, the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia are home to the biggest epidemics in this region. The highest HIV prevalence has been found in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras—where approximately 1% of adults or more were infected with HIV at the end of 2003..

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Disability as part of the life cycle and inclusive development

Since the disability sector defends diversity, inclusion, equal opportunities, personal autonomy, and solidarity, the sector is in a privileged position to offer a substantial contribution to the development process.

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The Independent Living Movement in Latin-America: By Rosangela Berman Bieler

The translation of the terminology "Independent Living (IL)" into Spanish, as it is being used by the Disability Movement, is "Vida Independiente" (or in Brazilian Portuguese - Vida Independente”), which means an "independent life". In general, this concept is not yet clearly understood by families, communities, service-providers or policy-makers, either in the Global South or, more specifically, within the Latin culture.

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