HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities

Deaf Reach looking for HIV+ speaker
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities From Sylvie Soulier: Hi! For Deaf-REACH's 40th anniversary celebration/ open house we are putting a spotlight on our HIV prevention program we are looking for a Deaf pos person who can talk to the evolution in healthcare, stigma and accessibility for the Deaf community if you know of anyone in the DC area pls let me know! Thanks!!!Join our Fight Deaf AIDS --- post a ...
Thu, Sep 20 2012

Great article on activist John Meletse!
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Below is a great article from CNN including videos that explains John Meletse's story and the important work he has been doing. [link] (CNN) -- It's been 11 years since John Meletse, a deaf, gay South African man, first learned he was HIV positive. But the events of that day are all too vividly etched on his mind: After a brief but anxious wait inside a Soweto clin...
Sat, Sep 08 2012

Deaf HIV/AIDS Facebook Group
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Interested in issues around HIV/AIDS and Deaf people?  Come join us on our Facebook ---
Wed, Aug 29 2012

Thursday Deaf Events at AIDS 2012
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Everyone is invited to the Disability Zone at AIDS 2012 on Thursday 7/26 for Deaf events10:30 Professional Networking meeting6:00 Deaf community OutreachWe will have Deaf presenters from Africa, Latin America and from Deaf Reach [link] here in Washington DC.One important aim is to discuss how to build a strong Deaf HIV community to teach others about their experienc...
Wed, Jul 25 2012

AIDS 2012 begins today (Sunday!)
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities AIDS 2012 begins today with the official opening ceremony and speeches! Watch for excerpts on TV!While the main part of the conference is for official paid attendees only, the Global Village where the Disability Networking Zone is is open to the public and all are welcome. We will be manning the booth the entire week and will have great presentations and i...
Sun, Jul 22 2012

AIDS Outreach, 7/26/2012, Washington DC
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The AIDS 2012 meeting, the big AIDS meeting that happens every two years, will be in Washington DC this July, [link] The Disability Zone in the Global Village is having a special Deaf Community Outreach night with guests including John Meletse, the first Deaf open HIV+ person in South Africa. There will be lots of fun including free condoms and great inf...
Fri, Jun 15 2012

Deaf Lost to AIDS 2011
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Deaf Lost to AIDS between 1980s and 2011, from the site [link] May they rest in peace. New in 2011: Patrick FellmansBrad SchockAlan Tomlinson (UK)Full List Keith AdamsJoey AdamsonMichael AdelmanSamuel AdornoAlex AquilarTomas Darrell AguinaldoBryan AlexanderRobert AllisGrady Alton*Robert “Robbie” Alton
(England)Andres Amodio*Jeff AmosJohn Amund...
Fri, May 11 2012

106 Clinics Serve the Deaf Community
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The POZ listing for Deaf HIV/AIDS services is growing! In April 2010, there were 96 clinics and other services listed. Today there are 106.POZ Deaf Clinic Directory
Sun, Nov 13 2011

Remembering Their Names
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The 2010 version of the Remember Their Names is now up listing those in the Deaf community we have lost to AIDS. Seven names were added in 2010, ten names in 2009. [link] all rest in peace.
Sun, Nov 13 2011

AIDS Information (Explicit)
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Reposting this basic AIDS information:This is adapted from a pamphlet by AIDS Initiative for Deaf Services (A.I.D.S). No words have been changed. Pictures were added by me.HIV/AIDS AND THE DEAF COMMUNITY You can get HIV by: * Sex (IC) no condom (rubber)* Share needles and shots* Blood to blood touch* From a mother to her unborn baby during pregnancy, birth or breast...
Fri, Jul 23 2010

Deaf Lost to AIDS
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities At the DeafAIDS website seven more names were added for 2009. People are living longer and healthier lives but AIDS continues to kill people we love. May they rest in peace.
Fri, Jul 23 2010

Greetings from the Vienna AIDS Conference!
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Writing from Vienna where I am attending the great Vienna AIDS 2010 conference. We have had a wonderful week of disability workshops and we are looking forward to meeting the Vienna Deaf community tonight when we do our "Evening in Sign Language." Will be publishing more on the convention shortly.
Fri, Jul 23 2010

96 Deaf AIDS clinics
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The POZ directory now lists 96 clinics that provide services for Deaf clients, a big improvement from the 42 they listed in 2008POZ List of Clinics
Tue, Apr 27 2010

Government resources on Deaf HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Websites from the US Department of Health and Human Services on HIV/AIDS and the Deaf community.August 2008 fact summary sheet: [link] sheet in PDF form:ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/hab/Deaf.pdfApril 2001 Newsletter reporting on Fall 2000 meeting on HIV/AIDS and the Deaf Community [link]
Sat, Jun 06 2009

Spreading the word on HIV/AIDS and the Deaf Community
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities I am currently working on a project to write to 100 government officials about the issue of HIV/AIDS and Deaf people. One problem I am coming across is that congress people only accept letters from people in their district. Would anyone be willing to co-sign a letter similar to the one posted below highlighting some of the major issues? If you are willing, please d...
Mon, Jun 01 2009

Deaf Lost to AIDS
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The Deaf Lost to AIDS website, [link] has been updated, listing 20 more deaths from AIDS in the past year, 18 Deaf people, 2 hearing members of the Deaf community, two Canadians, one Spaniard, and 17 Americans. May they rest in peace and inspire us all to keep fighting.
Wed, Dec 10 2008

Conference on Deaf People and Sexuality in
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Important conference on Deaf people and sexuality in Mexico City next weekend ( [link]
Fri, Sep 19 2008

AIDS 2008, Deaf Community Outreach, Thurs Aug 7
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The most important, and most successful Deaf event of the week was our outreach to the Mexico City Deaf community on Thursday night. While the main event was Donald Pilling talking about his own life as an HIV+ gay Deaf man and how to prevent the spread of HIV, we also had Cambodian hip hop dancers, an Israeli sign poet, the premiere of the first Mexican video on HIV...
Mon, Sep 08 2008

AIDS 2008, Skills Building Workshop, Thurs Aug 7
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities On Thursday afternoon we gave a Skills Building Workshop. Although our attendance wasn't large, the audience was very international with people from Africa, Asia and North America, and were very interested in what we had to say. As I hoped, we made a number of new and useful connections. A summary of what people were speaking about and notes on the presentation I g...
Mon, Sep 08 2008

AIDS 2008, Press Conference Tuesday, August 9
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities We gave a press conference on HIV/AIDS and Deaf issues on Tuesday. Unfortunately, because we were opposite a big formal press conference (and because few people think about issues of HIV/AIDS and disabilities), no one came into our little press conference room. With the encouragement of the press conference staff, we took our press conference out into the press hal...
Mon, Sep 08 2008

Wyoming AIDS Walk, 2008
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Jamie Pond and I walked in the Wyoming AIDS Walk on April 19, 2008 to raise awareness about the problem of the Deaf HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fellow marchers were friendly and the weather was sunny and clear. We invite everyone to march in their local AIDS walks with signs and information to raise awareness of Deaf issues until the CDC and national funding agencies recogni...
Mon, Sep 01 2008

AIDS 2008, Opening Ceremony, Sunday August 7
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Between August 7 and August 14, I was in beautiful Mexico City with 25,000 other people for the AIDS 2008 conference. In the next couple of days I will be posting on the events of the week, from the colorful dancers of the opening ceremonies on Sunday to the great outreach program led by Donald Pilling of CSSQ on Thursday evening. The opening ceremony was held at a ...
Mon, Sep 01 2008

AIDS 2008, Monday August 8
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities On Monday, I presented a paper on Deaf HIV infection rates in the United States. Only the state of Maryland keeps any figures on infection rates and those point to an epidemic being ignored by the larger public health authorities in the US including the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC). Deaf people consistently test HIV+ at about double the rate for hearing peo...
Mon, Sep 01 2008

Kenyan Sign Language videos on HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Kenya has some great programs for Deaf people about the problem of HIV/AIDS, sometimes I think they are ahead of Americans in looking at the problem. Here are two videos from Kenya. Kenyan Sign Language is different from American Sign Language but some parts of Kenyan Sign Language are like ASLT-Cells AttackedSign language speech from minister on HIV/AIDS & peer tra...
Fri, Aug 01 2008

New list of organizations that provide Deaf people with...
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities On May 10, 2007, I reported the POZ magazine website Directory of places that serve Deaf people. Then it listed 21 names, today it lists 44 names of organizations so I thought I would repost the link and the newly expanded list. As the list of providers that serve Deaf people is tricky to access from the main POZ website, just click above link for more information ...
Thu, Jul 31 2008

New Chat Board
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities One problem with blogs is that they don't foster conversations. In order to foster conversations and to give people a place to ask questions, I have started a chat board on HIV/AIDS, Deafness and Disability, all are welcome.HIV/AIDS, Deafness and Disability Chat Board
Mon, Jun 02 2008

HIV/AIDS can cause hearing loss
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Cate at Deafhub has posted an article about how HIV/AIDS can cause hearing loss.
Thu, Apr 10 2008

LSQ Signs for HIV & AIDS
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities While many of the signs in ASL and LSQ (Langue du Signe Quebecois) are the same or similar, Michel Turgeon's signs for HIV and AIDS are quite different. Michel is the founder and director of Quebec's Coalition SIDA des Sourdes du Quebec (CSSQ), the Deaf AIDS Coalition of Quebec. He wanted signs that showed how HIV gets in your body but AIDS kills you.HIVAIDS
Thu, Apr 10 2008

LSQ Video: Urgent Message about Deaf AIDS Committee
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Thu, Apr 10 2008

LSQ Video about HIV/AIDS "Message Tres Important"
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Thu, Apr 10 2008

Open letter to AIDS 2008 Organizers
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities MEMO FROM:THE GLOBAL COMMITTEE ON HIV/AIDS AND DISABLITYTO: Organizers of the XVII International AIDS Conference FROM: The Global Committee on HIV/AIDS and Disability RE: The Participation of Deaf People and People with Disabilities at the Mexico City AIDS 2008 ConferenceDATE: November 23, 2007We, the undersigned members of the newly formed Global Committee on HIV/AI...
Tue, Jan 29 2008

AIDS 2008 Update
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The organizers of AIDS 2008 responded very positively to our letter and we (the Global Committee on HIV/AIDS and Disability) are in the process of submitting an application for a Global Village Networking Zone and a number of cultural activities including an outreach program for the Deaf community of Mexico City. AIDS 2008 will be remarkable opportunity for HIV/AIDS ...
Tue, Jan 29 2008

More Deaths from AIDS
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The Remember Their Names memorial website, [link] has recently updated their list, adding names of Deaf community members who died of AIDS in 2007.25 new names were added23 men, 2 women17 United States6 Canada1 Guam1 United KingdomMay they rest in peace and may we find new ways to spread the message about the dangers of HIV/AIDS
Tue, Jan 29 2008

HIV/AIDS Information at the Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf...
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Conference in July 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia had a number of events connected to HIV/AIDS. These included an educational outreach talk by Andy Bartlett of AIDS Atlanta, an exhibition of pieces of the AIDS Quilt and Michel Turgeon, long time AIDS activist from Montreal winning the RAD 2007 Man of the Year award.
Tue, Jan 29 2008

HIV/AIDS and Japanese Deaf People
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Steven Fedorowitz, an anthropologist working in Japan has posted an interesting blog piece on the growing issue of HIV/AIDS in Japan in both the hearing and Deaf communities: [link]
Tue, Aug 21 2007

Listing of Accessible Clinics from POZ
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The POZ magazine website has this list of providers that serve Deaf people but it is tricky to access so I thought I'd post it here as well. Click above link for more information and fuller contact information on any of the clinics listed below.AIDS Services of Austin, Austin, TX 78752-2911Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10010-3101Brotherhood Task Force of [...]
Thu, May 10 2007

Disabilities Blog Carnival: HIV/AIDS and Disabilities
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities POST UNDER CONSTRUCTION--MORE TO FOLLOWThe theme of this issue of the Disability Blog Carnival was HIV/AIDS and disabilities. One thing clear from the submissions I received and other material I found on the net is how much in common people living with disabilities and people living with HIV/AIDS have and yet how distant from each other are the web communities of [...]
Sun, Mar 11 2007

33 more AIDS deaths listed for 2006
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities The Remember Their Names memorial website, [link] has just updated their list of Deaf community members who have died of AIDS. 33 new names were added: 31 men, 2 women28 United States, 3 England , 1 New Zealand, 1 Spain. May they rest in peace and may we find new ways to spread the word about the dangers of AIDS in the [...]
Sun, Jan 07 2007

HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Welcome to the new blog, HIV/AIDS, Deafness and Disabilities. It has been created to bring together activitists working in all areas connected with HIV/AIDS and communities everywhere of Deaf people and people living with disabilities. Please contact me if you would like to join this blog or comment in the comments sections. I thought I'd start by posting the [...]
Wed, Jan 03 2007