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In this section, AIDS-Free World will deal with the full range of pressing issues that we were created to address. For starters, you’ll find sections on disability, the law, prevention and funding. As the website grows, we will discuss other critical issues in this section. Please return to The Agenda to read about our advocacy in such areas as universal treatment, research, payment for caregivers, testing, epidemiology, disaggregated data, the Global Fund…

Disability and HIV/AIDS

Pushing frontiers: Including the disabled in service provision People with disabilities (PWDs) are often excluded from HIV and AIDS education and care initiatives, partly due to the widespread perception that th... Read more...

AIDS and the law

Beyond TRIPS:The role of non-state actors and access to essential medicines In this paper, Noah Novogrodsky argues that NGOs need to rethink the way they promote access to medicines. Rather than serving solely as advis... Read more...

AIDS and the law

Prevention

Failing Women and Children 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... Read more...

Funding for AIDS

Dead wrong An excerpt of a speech to the Third Annual Student AIDS Conference at Harvard Medical School, where Stephen Lewis confronted the question: Does too ... Read more...

TB and AIDS

X-treme Neglect Advisory Board member Winstone Zulu survived tuberculosis, but his four brothers did not. In this essay he points out, in the most personal terms, t... Read more...

Sexual rights and sexual violence

Rape Campaign in Zimbabwe: No Relief in South Africa Some of them risked death crossing into South Africa via the crocodile-infested Limpopo River, and others suffered further rapes and attacks from me... Read more...

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.
- A UN agency for women
- Questioning the statistics

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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.