- Making it Work (MIW) is a global multi-stakeholder initiative supporting the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
- Source is an international information support center designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.
- The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs, currently coordinated by Handicap International, is a coalition of thousands of people and U.S. non-governmental organizations working to convince the U.S. government to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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Kenya
THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS
In Kenya, Handicap International works with people with disabilities, refugees and people with HIV / AIDS.
Kenya is one of the ten African countries most affected by HIV / AIDS and records an average of 400 deaths per day caused by the virus. Handicap International also provides assistance to refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya. Kenya has a population of more than 200,000, mainly Sudanese and Somali, refugees.
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Improved care-management: Nairobi /
Improving the Prevention of Sexual Violence
A pilot project against gender-based violence in Kenya has recently been launched. The project will involve construction of an information center as well as care for victims. read
The fight against AIDS in Trans N'Zoia district /
Restoring hope
Patrick was diagnosed as being HIV positive in 2002, following the death of his first wife. Rejected by his family, he fell into the vicious cycle of poverty. read
