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The Impact of Permanent Disability on Rural Households: River Blindness in Guinea

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

SUMMARY This article examines the impact of permanent disability on households, based on a 1987 field study in highly endemic areas of...

Reflections on Including Disability in Social Protection Programmes

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article presents reflections on including disability in social protection and, specifically, in social assistance...

Disability Inclusion

Published by: GSDRC

This guide summarises some of the most rigorous available evidence on the key debates and challenges of disability inclusion in development and humanitarian response.

Policy Audit: Sexuality and Disability in Policies Affecting Chinese People with Disabilities

Published by: IDS

This policy audit examines the cultural, political and economic spheres in China from the perspective of people with disabilities.

Disability: Making CLTS Fully Inclusive

Published by: IDS

Community-Led Total Sanitation aims at total sanitation. For that it has to be inclusive. There are ethical reasons for this, but the bottom line is that while any open defecation continues, all are affected. This issue of Frontiers of CLTS focuses on people with disabilities and particular needs for access to sanitation.

Intellectual Disabilities in Humanitarian Assistance Policy and Practice: The Need to Consider the Diversity Within Disability

Published by: Routledge

This chapter examines the consideration and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in humanitarian assistance policy and practice. While this chapter will touch on many issues faced by all people with disabilities, there is a need to recognize the diversity within disability to ensure interventions are responsive to everyone’s needs, with ‘one size fits all planning unhelpful in overcoming discrimination’.

Disability Inclusion in Social Protection

Published by: GSDRC

While people with disabilities have higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities, many countries have tried to address this by providing social protection to poor people with disabilities and their households.

The ARV Roll Out and the Disability Grant: A South African Dilemma?

Prior to the antiretroviral (ARV) drug roll out in 2004, people living with HIV (PLHIV) in South Africa received disability grants when they were defined as "AIDS-sick". In the absence of available and effective medication, a diagnosis of AIDS portended disability. The disability grant is a critical component of South Africa's social security system, and plays an important role in addressing poverty among PLHIV.

HIV/AIDS, the disability grant and ARV adherence

Published by: FAFO

This report presents selected findings from a project conducted in collaboration between Fafo and University of Cape Town, AIDS and Society Research Unit. Through triangulated qualitative and quantitative research methods, we studied whether people living with HIV faced trade-offs between treatment adherence and grant termination.

The Grant is What I Wat: The Politics of Disability and Social Security

Published by: Cambridge University Press

The paper illustrates how national discourses influence the presentation and experience of suffering and the way in which doctors mediate diagnoses. The implications of local understandings of ‘health citizenship’ for expectations of the post-apartheid state are explored.