Disability is not Inability

:: Status of the Disability and Health

One of the major basic rights is access to social services for persons with various disabilities and specifically sensory Disabilities. Yet access to these services needs certain adjustments that various organizations can easily make to enable services reach the disabled persons. There are also various donors that can easily fund such adjustments weather in private or public sectors. The missing link is a policy guideline that sets standards of service and protocol of dealing with a person of which ever disability.


Support at the national level leading to health sector reform, family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention and Care activities, Roll Back malaria or child survival; have not been made disability sensitive. There is need to build consensus Support for disability-sensitive policy development and advocacy. Development of national standards that include respect for disability rights to access social services. Guidelines for provision of the key services such as Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), family planning (FP), reproductive health, Maternal Child Health (MCH) one Monitoring and Evaluation such as Demographic Health surveys (DHS); issues in cost sharing within disability, all have been wanting and worked to disenfranchise disabled groups from the system. A coordinating instrument that will ensure access of the disabled persons will enable mobilization of service providers and resources to build this access.

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