Red Ribbon Centre (RRC)|UNAIDS Collaborating Centre for Technical Support Hong Kong Expand view 2/F Wnag Tai Hom Jockey Club Clinic 200 Junction Road East Hong Kong Its mission is to facilitate and enhance the community's response to HIV/AIDS. It aims to do this by promoting community participation in AIDS education and research; enhancing the development of quality AIDS education programmes; facilitating the development of social, behavioural and epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong and the region; and providing an avenue for local and international collaboration in the fight against HIV/AIDS http://www.info.gov.hk/aids
The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation (HKSR) Hong Kong Expand view 6/F, 7 Sha Wan Drive Pokfulam Aims to restore health and economic self-sufficiency to the residents of Hong Kong suffering from any physical disability, whether arising from ill-health or injury. Involved in RENET - a rehabilitation electronic network on the Internet to meet the information needs of rehabilitation personnel in Hong Kong and Asia and the Pacific, to provide them with comprehensive and updated development in areas of policy, service delivery, professional intervention, programme strategies, and evalution and research findings. To facilitate exchange and to attain the objectives of 'Full Equality and participation' and 'A Society for All'. Its resource centre is open to the public http://www.rehabsociety.org.hk
National Women's Welfare Centre|Ariyancode Ottas Ekharamangalam India Expand view PO box 695125 Vanithabhavan Kerala Aims to work for peace and disarmament; poverty and illiteracy eradicaiton; community and rural development; learning, health and hygiene. Resource centre is open to the public
Finnish Disabled People's International Development Association (FIDIDA) Finland Expand view Lintulahdenkatu 10, 00500 Helsinki Finland FIDIDA is together with its member organizations implementing a programme called the Finnish Disability and Development Partnership, which aims at the full realization of the human rights of persons with disabilities living in the Global South. FIDIDA also offers training and consultation in disability related development cooperation, and lobbies for the mainstreaming of disability issues in national and international development policy http://www.fidida.fi
Swedish Organisation of Disabled Persons International Aid Association (SHIA) Sweden Expand view Liljeholms Torg 7A, S6tr SE-117 63 Stockholm The main objective of SHIA is to enhance and fight for equal rights for people with disabilities in the developing world http://www.shia.se
IMPACT UK Expand view 151 Western Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LH Impact's aim is that no-one should become disabled through disease, lack of knowledge or shortage of medical services. With effective delivery of today's know-how, it believes that, given the will and resources, it should be possible to reduce by one third the incidence of avoidable disability in developing countries, while at the same time helping to break the link between ageing and disability in industrialised countries like their own http://www.impact.org
Richmond Fellowship International (RFI) UK Expand view Europoint 5-11 Lavington Street London SE1 ON2 RFI has a worldwide commitment to the rehabilitation and soical integration of those who suffer by reason of mental ill-health or addiction and, in the case of children, deprivation and emotional, physical and sexual abuse http://www.charityadvantage.com/rfi
International Federation of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IFHSB) Belgium Expand view Cellebroersstraat 16 1000 Brussels The IFSBHC aims to improve quality of life for people with SB/HC, stimulate establishment of new groups, support those groups, promote exchange of knowledge and informaiton, stimulate primary prevention, influence international policies of primary prevention, and to undertake projects in developing countries. The IFSBHC resource centre is open to interested parties http://www.ifglobal.org
AbilityNet UK Expand view PO Box 94 Warwick CV34 5WS Aims to make the benefits of using computers available to disabled children and adults. Through its network of national offices and regional partners it offers specialist help to people with disabilities in order to enable them to use a computer at home, in education or in employment. Its resource centre is not open to the public http://www.abilitynet.co.uk
Agency for Social Development (ADS) Mali Expand view BPE 1497 Bamako Aims to alleviate poverty, educate, promote health, and provide safe water for PWDs
National Academies Press USA Expand view 500 Fifth Street, NW Lockbox 285 Washington, DC 20055 Publisher for United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council. Plymbridge is the distributor for the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. See regional distributors for other countries. http://www.nap.edu
Uganda National Association of the Deaf Uganda Expand view Plot 1601/2 - Kiwanga Estate, Namanve - Mukono, P.O. Box 7339, Kampala - Uganda Uganda National Association of the Deaf (UNAD) is a non government and voluntary organisation bringing together all categories of Deaf persons in Uganda including those with multiple disabilities like Deaf-Blind persons. It is a national umbrella organization for all grass root associations of Deaf persons in Uganda.In 2003 the Uganda National Association of the Deaf received funding from the World Bank for an HIV awareness project for the deaf in Uganda. The project is being run in collaboration with the Disabled Women's Resource Network and Action on Disability and Development http://www.unadeaf.org/
Disabled Women's Network and Resource Organisation Uganda Expand view Disabled Women's Network and Resource Organisation (DWNRO) PO Box 3454 Kampala DWNRO carried out a study (witha grant form ActionAid) about knowledge, attitudes and pratice of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS among disabled women. The study showed that disabled people, particularly the women, lack knowledge and access to reproductive health services in the country. It also aimed to establish the constraints faced by disabled women while seeking reproductive health services. It shows that many disabled women cannot easily access family planning and HIV/AIDS information from mass media, nor can they insist on having protected sex. The study points out that high levels of poverty, rape and non-use of contraceptives are the most common factors, which predispose disabled women to unwanted pregnancies and HIV/AIDS
Morning Bird Social Welfare Organization (MBSWO) Bangladesh Expand view Subid Bazar Reaz Mansion Sylhet 3100 MBSWO is a multi-purpose, a-political and not for profit welfare organisation. It aims to reach the poorest of the poor: women, chilren, unemployed youths, the homeless and the disabled. Programmes include formal & informal education, drugs awareness and prevention, treatment & prevention of TB, measles, MUMPS, and Hepatitis B and C. The health programmes are school and community based. In addition, the organisation runs a mental health and addiction hospital alongside a disabled beggar employment project. http://www.morningbird.8m.com
APSIDES France Expand view Maison des Sociétés Square Grimma Bron 69500 APSIDES focuses on the rehabilitation of physically disabled people in the community.