tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Disability and HIV/AIDS - a systematic review of literature on Africa"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Disability and HIV/AIDS - a systematic review of literature on Africa | Journal of the International AIDS Society BioMed Central Open Access Review Disability and HIV AIDS - a systematic review of literature on Africa Jill Hanass-Hancock Address Health Economics and HIV AIDS Research Division HEARD University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Email Jill Hanass-Hancock - hanasshj@ Published 13 November 2009 Received 21 April 2009 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2009 12 34 doi 1758-2652-12-34 Accepted 13 November 2009 This article is available from http content 12 1 34 2009 Hanass-Hancock licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This systematic review focuses on empirical work on disability and HIV AIDS in Africa in the past decade and considers all the literature currently accessible. The review presents data from different surveys and summarizes the findings. In this way it convincingly reveals that people with disabilities are very vulnerable to contracting HIV and lack access to information testing and treatment. The review further reveals gaps in the research and areas of concern. While vulnerability and accessibility have been investigated there are few prevalence studies or evaluations available. A certain amount of work has focused on the deaf population but little has been done for other disability groups. A growing area of concern is sexual abuse and exploitation of people with disabilities. Only a few studies or interventions focus on this crucial area. Background The year 2008 was a special one. It was during this year that the XVII International AIDS Conference AIDS 2008 in Mexico City as well as the 15 th International Conference on AIDS and STIs inAfrica ICASA 2008 in Dakar Senegal focused on disability as an issue in HIV .