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HIV & AIDS and Disability in Mozambique – a research study report by DDP. Summary findings and full report on recently completed research describing the research methodology and its constraints, findings, conclusions and recommendations.
This paper will précis recently completed research into Disability and HIV & AIDS in Mozambique, describing the research methodology and its constraints, findings, conclusions and recommendations. It will show that there has been scant interest (either academic or applied) in connecting disability and HIV & AIDS – especially in poorer countries – and that disabled people are routinely excluded from HIV & AIDS policies and service programmes. And that this is happening while there are sound reasons to believe that disabled people are at least as likely to be as vulnerable to HIV as the general population and many would argue more so.
Using a cross disciplinary but broadly sociological approach, the paper will then seek to identify the causes and implications of this neglect and what can be learned more generally about attitudes towards disability and their relationship to other MDGs. Locating disability squarely within the framework of development, the paper will argue strongly that the effective omission of disabled people from supra-national development instruments mirrors more general discrimination and reflects disabled people’s voicelessness and invisibility. Seeking to avoid the clichés of international development, we will subject conventional approaches to critical analysis (for example, service provision versus rights: a false dichotomy?), and offer contextualised insights into the stigmatisation of disability and disabled people and its impact on assumptions about disabled people’s sexual activity. The paper will supplement these arguments by examining power relationships from different perspectives (socio-economic and gender, for example) to highlight areas of intervention with the potential to address disabled people’s social exclusion. |
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