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Providing Sex Education to Persons with Learning Disabilities in the Era of HIV/AIDS

Tensions between Discourses of Human Rights and Restriction

Poul Rohleder

Anglia Ruskin University, UK and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, poul.rohleder{at}anglia.ac.uk

Leslie Swartz

Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa

Research suggests that disabled people may be at increased risk for HIV infection, yet are excluded from HIV prevention campaigns. Historically people with learning disabilities have been constructed as either being asexual or sexually uninhibited, and sex education considered to be unnecessary or potentially harmful. This article reports on findings of a qualitative study exploring the challenges expressed by participants who provide sex education for persons with learning disabilities, revealing a tension between a human rights discourse and a discourse of restriction of sexual behaviours. Sex education, in the context of HIV/AIDS, may potentially construct sex as dangerous, echoing past constructions of disabled people's sexuality as problematic.

Key Words: disabled people • HIV/AIDS • HIV prevention • learning disabilities • sex education • South Africa

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 601-610 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105309103579
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