AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and effective global responses to HIV/AIDS.
The world's policymakers have been cooking the statistical books on HIV services to mothers and babies. AIDS-Free World's co-directors Stephen Lewis and Paula Donovan wrote the preface to Failing Women, Failing Children: HIV, Vertical Transmission and Women's Health, the International Treatment Preparedness Campaign's report, "Missing the Target 7," based on research in six countries. The report was launched in May 2009 and received instant attention.
- THE AGENDA
AIDS-Free World takes on the most critical issues affecting populations from Africa to the Caribbean, Asia and beyond. The Agenda items listed so far offer a sampling of topics we will probe in this section.
- THE DEBATES
Every approach to HIV/AIDS has pros and cons, but most are thrashed out behind closed doors. In The Debates, introduced here with a few initial topics, we’ll move those discussions into the public domain.
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Double Discrimination: A Town Hall Meeting organized by AIDS-Free World and Disabled Peoples’ International
HIV and disability are linked, but the world has been slow to acknowledge this. The connection took center stage for the first time at a significant global level in a historic event in Mexico City. Many of the 650 million disabled people in the world are more vulnerable to HIV than the general population, yet they are excluded from most HIV services.
This session brought AIDS and disability rights activists together at the XVII International AIDS conference for a fascinating town hall-style conversation, moderated by TV personality Avi Lewis. Activists, scholars and audience members held a lively discussion about barriers to prevention, treatment and care, particularly for disabled women; historic neglect at all levels; and innovative efforts now under way to address the issues.
We are proud to present Double Discrimination, closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Watch Part 1 of Double Discrimination: Disability and AIDS above; for Parts 2 through 5 click here.
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