Resources

People living with HIV

• Discussion Paper

  • HIV, Disability and Human Rights (English)
  • Le VIH, le handicap et les droits de la personne (Français)
  • VIH, Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos (Español)
• The Journal of the International AIDS Society launched its thematic series on HIV and Disability, with the aim to raise awareness about issues relating to HIV and disabilities. This series presents a number of papers (details below) to provide readers with an update of developments in the field. These papers explore this central issue through a range of perspectives, including Law, African Studies, Public Policy and Public Health.
  All of the articles published by the Journal of the International AIDS Society are open access and freely accessible online at www.jiasociety.org.
  • Published 9 November 2009: HIV, disability and discrimination: making the links in international and domestic human rights law
• Impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions: Prevalence and associations among persons living with HIV/AIDS in British Columbia (PDF: 155 KB)
• Physiological and Psychological Effects of Exercise Interventions in HIV Disease (PDF: 248 KB)
• Private Long-Term Disability Insurers and Canada Pension Plan: A Legal Memo Prepared for BC Persons with AIDS Society's Advocacy Program (PDF: 222 KB)
• Fact Sheet: Rehabilitation for People Living With HIV
• Self Management Tips:
  • Exercise and HIV
  • Fatigue and HIV
  • Mental Health and HIV
• On March 11, 2010, the Government of Canada ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at the United Nations, “reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be guaranteed their full enjoyment without discrimination.”
• Click here to read the Convention in full.
  
  

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