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Disability and HIV within the wider scope of disability and human rights

Disability and HIV within the wider scope of disability and human rights. Paul de Lay, Deputy Executive Director, Programmes, UNAIDS. Outcome of High-level meeting on HIV/AIDS – June 2011.

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Disability and HIV within the wider scope of disability and human rights

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  1. Disability and HIV within the wider scope of disability and human rights Paul de Lay, Deputy Executive Director, Programmes, UNAIDS

  2. Outcome of High-level meeting on HIV/AIDS – June 2011 Recognizedthe need to take into account the rights of persons with disabilities in particular with regard to health, education, accessibility and information, in the formulation of our global response to HIV and AIDS; Noted with concernthat prevention, treatment, care and support programmes have been inadequately targeted or made accessible to persons with disabilities; Commit to ensure that financial resources for prevention are spent as cost-effectively as possible, and to ensuring that particular attention is paid to people with disabilities; Commit by 2015 to address factors that limit treatment uptake and contribute to treatment lack of accessibility of information, resources and sites, especially to persons with disabilities.

  3. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Article 25 on Health guarantees that the State parties will “provide persons with disabilities with the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable health care and programmes as provided to other persons, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health and population-based public health programmes.”

  4. Advocacy Data collection Scale-up programming Key areas of action

  5. Disability integrated into AIDS programming and response: Asia and Pacific Papua New Guinea Caribbean Jamaica East and Southern Africa Botswana, Eritrea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe Latin America Belize, Nicaragua West and Central Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Global Fund funded programme support for people with physical, sensory(deafness/blindness), intellectual or mental disabilities: Eritrea, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Burundi, Chad Action is moving ahead in a number of countries:

  6. Major challenges ahead • Reducing exposure to HIV – particularly through sexual violence • Increasing Access to information • Increasing access to Treatment, Care and Support

  7. VISION ZERO NEW HIV INFECTIONS. ZERO DISCRIMINATION.ZERO AIDS-RELATED DEATHS.

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