Stepping Stones Resources
Resource: Disabilities / Mental Health
Description: Disabilities / Mental Health
Disabilities / Mental Health
People living with HIV and AIDS are often under huge stress and this can often have an impact on their mental health, sense of wellbeing and self-esteem.This page has resources that relate to the links between HIV and mental health issues.
Alice Welbourn explains how HIV can be described as a disability in her presentation at WHO in Geneva in April 2009: "Making Lemonade out Lemons - Stories of despair, determination and resilience of the spirit". Please click on the links to access Alice's presentation and the accompanying slides.
The following article looks at how teenagers' mental health needs to be prioritised in the context of HIV in South Africa: Stepping Stones study - Fact sheet on young people's health and sexual practice in villages and townships of the rural Easter Cape (Jewkes R et al, 2008, MRC).
the following diagram was produced by teenage girls in Zimbabwe who were sharing with Barbara Kaim of the Auntie Stella programme their experiences of the causes and consequences of having boyfriends (www.auntiestella.org). This diagram mirrors some of the issues highlighted in the above article from S Africa.
Stepping Stones programmes improve young people's self-esteem
and sense of self-worth in the community as described in the following evaluation of Stepping Stones conducted in in South Africa - MRC, 2007.
In Uganda, Stepping Stones was succesfully used to reintegrate returning army veterans into their communities. Baron Oron relates this experience in the following video interview.
Please see also how Stepping Stones has changed the life of the village of Buwenda in southwest Uganda, where the original Stepping Stones workshop was conducted in 1994. The video of Stepping Stones revisited can be viewed here.
Stepping Stones has been used to help rebuild community cohesion in other post-conflict settings as described in the evaluation conducted by UNICEF in Mozambique in 1999.
In Uganda, Stepping Stones was succesfully used to reintegrate returning army veterans into their communities. Baron Oron relates this experience in the following video interview.
Please see also how Stepping Stones has changed the life of the village of Buwenda in southwest Uganda, where the original Stepping Stones workshop was conducted in 1994. The video of Stepping Stones revisited can be viewed here.
Stepping Stones has been used to help rebuild community cohesion in other post-conflict settings as described in the evaluation conducted by UNICEF in Mozambique in 1999.
See also the WHO report on HIV and Mental Health (November 2008).
Resource Links
- SS_FACT_Disability_Zimbabwe_2010.pdf
- SS_FactSheet_YoungPeople_SouthAfrica_2008.pdf
- SS_MRC_GenderTransformativeEvaluation_SouthAfrica_2007.pdf
- SS_People_with_special_needs_India_2008.pdf
- SS_UNICEF_Evaluation_Mozambique_1999.pdf
- WHO_Mental_Health_HIV_2009.pdf
- Welbourn_HIV_Disability_WHO_Presentation_2009.pdf
- Welbourn_HIV_Disability_WHO_Slides_2009.pdf
