JNH350H1 Lecture Notes - Free Market, Female Genital Mutilation
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Point 3: cultural barriers, economic challenges, attitudes of people towards pwd. People with disability get higher amount of discrimination. Capitalistic: free market, driven by profits-don"t want to employ pwd. Need to notice that there is a range of disabilities-each experiences/is influenced by. Limited research in africa on hiv/aids and pwd: increased chance of infection of hiv, equal levels of sexual activity as non-disabled individuals. Sexual violence: physically unable to defend themselves, women with disability 3x more likely to be raped than non-disabled women. Legal challenges: hiv positive men can have sex with virgins to get rid of hiv (obv. Challenge of lack of information: few legal consequences for people who sexually assault pwd, depending on type of disability, cant" get info. Ex. wheelchairs-cant" access info session because of stairs. Need to talk with them, not just about them. Racism- one race looking at another as inferior.
