Disability and HIV in Africa
Breaking the barriers to sexual health care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4228675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Poul Rohleder (0000-0002-5052-0464, University of East London) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1405-1414 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359105316628738 |
| PMID | 26893296 |
| OpenAlex | W992079479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 47 |
Three decades into the HIV pandemic, the issues affecting people with disabilities remain less known. Increasing attention has been given to this overlooked population when it comes to HIV prevention, treatment and care. This is related to the significant unmet sexual and reproductive healthcare needs facing people with disabilities worldwide. This article discusses the barriers to sexual health for people with disabilities in Africa and presents an argument about how mainstream HIV prevention work and research do not adequately attend to the sorts of systemic barriers that exclude people with disabilities, which a more targeted and critical approach could
Argument (complex analysis · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Environmental health · Family medicine · Health care · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Mainstream · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Reproductive health · Disability Rights and Representation · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology
Dis/ability Studies
Letting Them Die
The Myth of Asexuality
Disabled Sexuality
The Politics of Disablement
Predictors of voluntary HIV counselling and testing services utilization among people with disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Disabled persons’ knowledge of HIV prevention and access to health care prevention services in South Africa
Disability and HIV
HIV/Aids and disability organisations in South Africa
The African Network for Evidence-to-Action on Disability
Disabling sexualities
Disabled people in rural South Africa talk about sexuality
HIV issues and people with disabilities
Unmet health care needs of people with disabilities
Women with disabilities in the North West province of Cameroon
Cultural Representation of Disabled People
Providing Sex Education to Persons with Learning Disabilities in the Era of HIV/Aids
Disability, space and sexuality
Parents' anxieties about the risk of HIV/Aids for their Deaf and hard of hearing adolescents in South Africa
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
Perceptions of the availability and effectiveness of HIV/Aids awareness and intervention programmes by people with disabilities in Uganda
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |