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Posted on 27/05/2011 by
The World Report on Disability will be launched at the United Nations Building in New York on 9th June by the WHO Director-General and a senior official from the World Bank.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 25/05/2011 by
On 16th May 2011, the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom and the International Disability and Development Consortium held an event to launch the UN, ILO, UNESCO, IDDC Community-Based Rehabilitation Guidelines first unveiled at the Fourth CBR African Network Conference in Abuja, Nigeria, at the end of October 2010.
Categories: Technical information
Posted on 23/05/2011 by
Daniela is familiar with prejudice. When she decided to take on the role of DAHW Representative in Senegal, she was inundated with countless “well-intended” tips! For many that Islamized country was not the place for a woman with a child. However, it was more of an incentive for this fighting-spirited woman. “I myself have experienced others not trusting me with certain tasks. Thus I am very well placed to comprehend what marginalisation means for persons affected by leprosy”. However, the marginalisation of these people in Senegal was far worse than she had feared: “For Senegalese who are not affected by leprosy, these villages simply do not exist – and therefore their inhabitants neither.”
Posted on 19/05/2011 by
“I feel like someone with leprosy” goes the saying of people who feel they are being marginalised. As unhappy as this comparison is, unfortunately – even today in our seemingly enlightened world – persons affected by leprosy are still marginalised and even rejected by their own families. The German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (DAHW) gives those affected the opportunity to build a new existence – an existence among those very persons who once banished them.
Posted on 18/05/2011 by
On 17th May 2011 the Global Health Council announced the United Nation’s leading programme for research and scientific collaboration, which helps co-ordinate, support and promote global efforts to combat infectious diseases of the poor and disadvantaged, as the winner of the 2011 Gates Award for Global Health.
Categories: News and Notes