NEWS: Jamaica HIV & AIDS Program Includes Disabled People
The United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS) program in Jamaica has been taking action to ensure that people with disabilities are not left behind in HIV/AIDS education efforts. Initiatives include providing materials in Braille for blind people and incorporating sign language into television public service announcements for deaf people. Read more detail about the project at:
Learn more about HIV/AIDS in relation to people with disabilities, and some of the resources available to help, by clicking on HIV/AIDS in the pull-down menu under “Topics/Categories” in the right-hand navigation bar.
I learned about this project via a recent issue of the Disabled Peoples International electronic newsletter.
Subscribe to We Can Do
Learn how to receive an email alert when new material is posted at We Can Do (wecando.wordpress.com).
Other Resources at We Can Do
Catch up with the news; explore resources, toolkits, or funding and fellowship opportunities; find research, reports, papers, or statistics; or look up conferences, events, call for papers, or education/training opportunities.
We Can Do Copyright
This blog post is copyrighted to We Can Do (wecando.wordpress.com). Currently, only two web sites have on-going permission to syndicate (re-post) We Can Do blog posts in full: BlogAfrica.com and RatifyNow.org. Other sites may be plagiarizing this post without permission.
Stumble It!
hey, this is great! I am working with a volunteer organization (vso, http://www.vsocan.org), as an coordinator of deaf education program for snr: nigeria’s response to hiv and aids (ngo) in kaduna, nigeria. I’ve been looking for resources linking education of deaf people to hiv and aids programmes worldwide. Thanks for the reference!!! Great site, by the way :)
cheers, coco
http://tactiletheworld.wordpress.com
tactiletheworld
3 October 2008