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September 25, 2006
World Bank/JICA TV Confenrece on HIV/AIDS and Disability
Dear jicafriends
On September 8, the TV conference on "Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Disability"was held by DPI-Japan as a part of the program for the JICA group training course in "Mainstreaming and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in Southern Africa." It connected JICA Headquaters in Tokyo and World Bank Headquaters in Washington DC using JICA-Net.
It was informed directly by the participants from Africa about how the persons with disabilities are excluded from HIV/AIDS programs because of various mislead beliefs such as they are not prone to
HIV/AIDS. It's not easy to change people's beliefs and attitudes.
Please visit the following website for more information and materials shown at the conference.
http://www.dpi-japan.org/english/english.htm
Both disabilities issues and HIV/AIDS issues cannot be challenged as a health problem but should be tackled in development context. To do so, it is important, as was emphasized during the conference, to build up a horizontal cooperation and partnership by networking with different stakeholders such as governmental organizations, international/local NGOs, private sectors,
civil society etc, which will be a key for the constructive actions towards the society for all.
JSRPD
Posted by jicafriends at September 25, 2006 01:18 PM