 To many people it seems a contradiction in terms to work on the risk of HIV/AIDS infection within the disabled population and it is indeed an area filled with myths. One common misconception is that disabled people are not sexually active and therefore not at risk of being infected. Another that substance abuse, sexual abuse and violence, homosexuality and bisexuality does not exist among disabled people. These are all wrong assumptions that lead to exclusion from HIV/AIDS prevention and care services of a large group of individuals that face all known risk factors for HIV/AIDS at equal to up to three times greater risk of infection than do non-disabled individuals (Yale/World Bank Global Survey).
Publications and Reports- Guidelines for Inclusion of Individuals with Disability in HIV/AIDS Outreach Efforts
By Nora E.Groce, Reshma Trasi and Aisha K. Yousafzai, Yale University
Financed by the World Bank
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Português | MS Word [144KB] | 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) The strategies for interventions proposed here can provide a framework upon which disability advocates and HIV/AIDS advocates, educators and policy makers can begin to build interventions and support mechanisms for 'at-risk' disabled populations. - Global Survey on HIV/AIDS and Disability
By Nora Groce, Yale University and World Bank
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Español | PDF [6.9MB] | MS Word [479KB] | The disabling effects of HIV/AIDS on previously healthy people has been the subject of attention by AIDS researchers, however there is a striking absence of attention to the risk of HIV infection in individuals who have a physical, sensory, intellectual or mental health disability prior to acquiring the virus. This project was initiated to determine whether and to what extend, the 600 million individuals who live with a disability are at risk of acquiring HIV/AID and what measures are being taken to ensure that they are able to access HIV/AIDS information and services. - Disability and HIV/AIDS at a glance
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November 2004 - HIV/AIDS and Youth at a glance
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By Health-Nutrition-Population, World Bank
October 2003 - HIV/AIDS at a glance
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By Health-Nutrition-Population, World Bank - HIV/AIDS and Disability - Dec. 3, 2003
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The Africa Campaign on Disability and HIV & AIDS aims to reduce the vulnerability of disabled people to the impact of HIV & AIDS by promoting HIV & AIDS policies, programmes, information and services that genuinely include them. The Campaign is led by the Secretariat of African Decade of Disabled Persons (1999 to 2009), Handicap International (France) and Handicap International (UK).
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"AIDS is turning back the clock on development. In too many countries the gains in life expectancy won are being wiped out. In too many countries more teachers are dying each week than can be trained. We will mainstream AIDS in all World Bank work." James D. Wolfensohn - World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Public Health at a Glance Series:
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