Returning to the timeline traced by the International AIDS Conferences, the 2000 meeting was held in Durban, South Africa. This was the first time that a resource-limited country had played host.  It…

The response to HIV and AIDS can largely be characterized as the identification and targeting of key populations that are believed to be at increased risk of exposure to HIV.…

Whereas stories of the earliest activism on HIV began with the voices of people living with HIV in America and Europe, so this arm of the story begins with people who…

In the five years since the results of the Global Survey on HIV/AIDS and Disability were released,  research on people with disabilities and their experiences with…

Issues of accessibility are beginning to be addressed.  For example,  the International AIDS conferences in 2006 and 2008 were criticized for the lack of accessibility for people with disabilities…

Several significant policy efforts related to this field have taken place or are underway. 

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities,…

Although the two fields may have unique histories, there is now evidence that they are becoming increasingly integrated.  First,  we are seeing HIV organizations taking up the concerns…

The concerns of people with disabilities will increasingly be taken seriously and mainstreamed into HIV research, policy and programmes. This engagement will grow because of leadership at the grassroots level by…

From a clinical perspective, although medicine was best positioned to help contend with disease processes, it was the rehabilitation community (e.g., physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and physiatrists)  who brought…

This article provides an historic overview of the fields of disability and HIV. We describe this area of concern in terms of “fields” versus “a single field”…