From the State Department (12.13.10):
HIV/AIDS and Disabilities: Making the Connection
By Louise Fenner
Imagine going to a clinic to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, if you are deaf and cannot read or use formal sign language. The doctor gives a “thumbs-up” sign. Does it mean “yes, you have HIV” or “yes, you are OK”?
This happened in Mozambique, and the patient went home not knowing his HIV status, said Rosangela Berman Bieler, a Brazilian journalist who is among a growing number of health activists trying to give persons with disabilities better access to HIV/AIDS services. Her group, the Inter-American Institute on Disability and Inclusive Development (IIDI), works with governments in Latin America, the Caribbean and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Berman Bieler spoke December 3 at a conference chaired by Judith Heumann, the State Department’s adviser on disability rights...
People with disabilities, are everywhere. They are mothers, soldiers, sex workers, and drug users. They are doctors, nurses, janitors, and taxi drivers. They live everywhere, from Canada to Cambodia, in slums, hospitals, and bungalows. They live and die at the heart of the AIDS pandemic.
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