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Perceptions for People with Disabilities (PPD) is a non-profit community based organization that would like to take on the mission of collecting data on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA's) and the  Differently-abled (visually impaired/blind, hard of hearing/deaf, physically and/or mentally challenged).
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Perceptions for People with Disabilities have been trying to obtain data on this underserved, marginalized, and emerging population of survivors. At the present time, much needed epidemiological data is critical for this emerging population, and there is little available at the national, state and/or local levels.
Science has achieved, with the advent of HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy) in late 1996, its goal of lowing morbidity, and prolonging the lives of PLWHA's. Moreover, now that living with HIV/AIDS will not drastically truncate ones life expectancy, do we know the ramifications of the virus, the prolonged use of HAART medications and natural geriatrics, when a person becomes differently-abled.
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  Perceptions for People with Disabilities (PPD) is committed to empowering and educating the Differently-abled, (visually/blind, hard of hearing/deaf, mentally and/or physically challenged) people living with HIV/AIDS to be socially independent and self-sufficient.
PPD also strives to increase community awareness around the special needs of people living with HIV/AIDS who are visually impaired/blind, hard of hearing/deaf, mentally and/or physically challenged. |
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How You Can Make a Differences in Someone's Life
Please Make A Financial Donation Online Today
All Donations are Tax-Deductible
PPD has produced a wish list of items needed to implement our mission, and goals. If you can help us by donating any of the items on our list you would be facilitating, and making a real world change in the life of someone living with HIV/AIDS and who is Differently-abled.
Remember........
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear, the blind can read and those with HIV/AIDS can feel.
Your donations to PPD’s wish list of items will make it possible for us to carry out our mission to serve the HIV/AIDS Differently-abled community. If you have any of these items, new or used, on our wish list, please give because, your generosity will go a long way to making a difference for the differently-abled.
Please take a look at our Wish list items:
Office Space for admin
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We are now in the third decade of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic and although HIV prevention efforts have grown substantially
over time and we have made important progress, major unmet needs remain
especially concerning the Differently-abled. HIV continues to pose a
significant threat to Americans' health and well-being, with African Americans
and men who have sex with men (MSM) of all races most severely affected.
While
African Americans account for 13 percent of the population, they account for nearly
half of HIV diagnoses in 2005 (49% in 33 states with longstanding confidential
name-based reporting) and nearly half of the people estimated to be living with
HIV (47%). MSM also account for half of new HIV diagnoses in 2005 (49% in the
33 states with confidential name-based reporting) and nearly half of people
estimated to be living with HIV (45%). However, when it comes to this epidemic
among HIV differently-abled individuals, a prevention message has been totally
unnoticed, and unobserved. PPD plan to change this non-inclusion.
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