Historically, persons with disabilities have been regarded by society in two contradictory ways – either as asexual or as sexually threatening. By and large, their sexual desires are assumed to be non-existent. In this environment that is not particularly enabling, how do people with disabilities conceptualize, experience and engage with themselves as sexual beings?...
National Aids Control Organization: HIV Radio Spots
CMAC produced radio spots for the National Aids Control Organization (NACO). The aim of these radio spots was to address and the discrimination against AIDS patients and the stigma around HIV-AIDS. Listen to the radio spots:...
UNAIDS: People Plus
CMAC designed and edited a photo-book commissioned by UNAIDS, titled “People Plus” for the International Conference on HIV/AIDS, (ICAAP) in the Asia Pacific, Australia, 2001. The objective of the book was to push for greater visibility to the realities of HIV/AIDS in India....
Talking HIV and Gender: Media and Messaging
In an effort to facilitate an understanding of and encourage action on the vulnerability of women to HIV/AIDS, CMAC in collaboration with Women Feature Service and UNIFEM, created a handbook, “Talking HIV and Gender- Media and Messaging”....
Engender Health
CMAC worked with Engender Health on encouraging positive prevention amongst men. The project involved working closely with regional networks of HIV-positive people by capacity building through training, creating toolkits and advocacy products like posters. View Workshop Photographs...
CHARCA
The “CHARCA” project is a joint partnership between government, NGOs, donors, and the UN System (ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNODC, WHO and UNAIDS). It seeks to address the feminization of HIV and move towards the empowerment of women. CMAC has been documenting (through film, print and advocacy programs) women’s vulnerability to HIV...
ArtMoves
ArtMoves is a joint project produced by MAKE ART STOP AIDS and CMAC. It is a fully portable human-rights based AIDS/arts intervention, and it consists of multiple workshops, events and displays. Conveyed and presented in five retrofitted auto-rickshaws, ArtMoves is better described as a moving event or a “happening”, than an exhibition. View Graphics...