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HIV/AIDS and Disability The need for advocacy
Jessica de RuijterAugust 7 2008
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VSO
• VSO is an international development organisation working in 34 countries in Africa and Asia.
• Focus on capacity building through: – Volunteering, training & workshops, study tours
etc– Advocacy
• Focus on 6 goals – HIV & AIDS, Disability, Health, Education, Secure
Livelihood, Participation & Governance
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Advocacy on HIV and disabilityVSO’s experience
• Started this year• Why HIV & AIDS and disability?
– VSO is supporting good programmes– Advocacy based on these experiences– Only few organisations active in NL
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VSO’s HIV & AIDS and disability programmes• Overview of VSO project experiences• In 9 countries HIV & disability
programmesMain activities are:
• Providing accessible information and services
• Awareness raising among the disability community
• Disability training for HIV organisation• Advocacy
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VSO’s HIV&AIDS and disability programmes
• Mainly in African countries and India, Vietnam
• Majority are disability organisations that include HIV in their programmes.
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Goal of VSO’s advocacy
Advocate for inclusive policies and programmes, through1.Raising awareness2.Provide tools to mainstream: -
disability in HIV programmes and - HIV in disability programmes.
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Building national coalitions
In the Netherlands no or very little attention for disability and HIV
Disability and HIV Working Group established.
Working group has same advocacy objectives.
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Activities of the working group
• Produce materials like folder, articles
• Organise workshops, training and seminar
• Lobby: – input for UNGASS – Input for the new Dutch policy around
HIV and sexual and reproductive health.
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Building international coalitions
• Working group at European level established.
• International agencies like:– Africa Campaign – AIDS Free World
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Experiences so far
Very difficult to get disability on the HIV agenda of the Ministry
- unsucessful at getting disability in the UNGASS statement
- low expectations for getting disability in the new policy
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Experiences so far
Why not successful, the response we get:• Cannot do everything• NL has not much experience in this,
wants to focus in the new policy on what NL is good in.
• Tired of another ‘new’ target group
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Experiences so far continued
• Difficult to get development organisations involved eg:– Workshop proposal for Dutch AIDS
conference not approved• Give similar arguments, cannot do
everything, no experience etc
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Conclusion
• A lot of work needs to be done, but we have just started.
• It is a long process, step by step • But by working together we will
achieve results• Vienna here we come!!