SANAB brings a Smile to the Victims: Together we can Fight it!

The HIV & AIDS epidemic is the most important challenge facing South Africa since the birth of our new democracy. This epidemic challenge comes in a time when our country is with many other competing needs like redressing the imbalance of the past, transformation of the society and integrating South Africa into the global economy. Failure to respond to this HIV & AIDS pandemic will reverse all the developments gained in the past twenty years of democracy. It has also been realized that HIV/AIDS can be coupled with gender based violence resulting in most families. Disabled persons have a variety of defects like impairment of hearing, speech and vision, different forms of physical and mental disabilities. All the above categories are vulnerable to sexual abuse due to their limitation in either inability to hear, inability to reason or argue rationally, inability to hear and respond to the spoken word/request appropriately.

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