Disabled Need Access To HIV/AIDS Information - Keoagile
Monday, February 22, 2010
Lack of integrating people with disability in HIV and AIDS messages and intervention means such as counselling is a hindrance to the fight against the scourge.
Currently communications about the disease are tailored in a way that is user friendly for one sector of the population - the able-bodied. In an interview Disability HIV and AIDS Trust (DHAT) programmes officer Shirley Keoagile said as a result, people with disability are subject to the triple burden of disability, poverty and HIV and AIDS.
Keoagile said the most prevalent causes are lack of access to service provision, lack of awareness about the disease and the stigma that comes with being disabled.
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