AIDS, not hearing AIDS: Exploring the link between the deaf community and HIV/AIDS

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 99-113

  Stevens, Helga ^a,b  

^a Attorney at Law ^*

^b Attorney at Law   (Belgium)

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EID: 0041041634     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065189     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. AHRTAG, "Signs in a Time of AIDS, " AIDS Action 35 (1996-1997):3 (special joint issue with CBR News 24 (1997)).
2. AHRTAG, "Signs in a Time of AIDS, " AIDS Action 35 (1996-1997):3 (special joint issue with CBR News 24 (1997)).
3. A. Scully, "Human Rights, HIV and AIDS," in: Understanding Human Rights, C. Gearty and A. Tomkins (eds.) (London: Mansell, 1996), p. 352-353.
4. See K. Tomasevski, "The Right to Health for People with Disabilities," in: Human Rights and Disabled Persons, T. Degener and Y. Koster-Dreese (eds.) (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1995), p. 136.
5. This article makes a distinction between deaf people in general, i.e. anybody with a serious hearing disability, and deaf people who view themselves as culturally Deaf, i.e. Deaf people who use Sign Language as their primary means of communication and who view themselves member of a larger Deaf Community. These latter people are referred to with a capital D. As this article concerns primarily the latter group, the capital D in Deaf is used consistently, unless when reference is made to the general group of deaf people. This distinction is along the lines of the definitional guidelines of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD).
6. K. Tomasevski, see note 3, p. 132.
7. Including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) as well as the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950).
8. Convention on the Rights of the Child, GA Res 44/25, UN GAOR, 44th Sess., 41st plen. mtg., Annex, UN Doc A/44/25 (1989), article 2.
9. A. Hendriks, "Promoting Non-Discrimination and Ensuring Reasonable Accommodation / From Concepts to Reality," in: Non-Discrimination Report: First Draft (Brussels: European Day of Disabled Persons 1995, 1995), p. 9.
10. See World Federation of the Deaf, "Human Rights Survey," WFD News 10(1997):11.
11. The example of the Paris DASES administration is based on articles written in the newsletter of the French Association of the Deaf: Fédération Nationale des Sourds de France, "SIDA: Sourds en colère," Actua'Sourd 2 (1994):5; and "Les Sourds font du raffut devant l'Hôtel de Ville," Actua'Sourd 2 (1994):7.
12. The example of the Paris DASES administration is based on articles written in the newsletter of the French Association of the Deaf: Fédération Nationale des Sourds de France, "SIDA: Sourds en colère," Actua'Sourd 2 (1994):5; and "Les Sourds font du raffut devant l'Hôtel de Ville," Actua'Sourd 2 (1994):7.
13. These statistics are mentioned by J.R. Olson in his project summary: "HIV&AIDS Education by the Deaf of the Deaf: An International Conference," Montana State University at Bozeman, Montana, 1997.
14. Ibid.
15. T. Degener, "Disabled Persons and Human Rights: the legal framework," see note 3, p. 24.
16. M. Banotti, Report on the Rights of Disabled People, European Parliament Committee on Petitions, DOC_EN\RR\314\314244 (Brussels: European Parliament, 1996), p. 20.
17. H. Lane, The Mask of Benevolence (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 5.