Disability as a Form of Child Vulnerability in Uganda

Type Working Paper
Title Disability as a Form of Child Vulnerability in Uganda
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URL http://www.afri-can.org/Scanning Project/Cross-cutting/LubaaleYovani A Moses.pdf
Abstract
Disability is one of the forms of vulnerability that countries need to address. It is estimated that there are 500-650 million persons with disabilities in the world, 10% of the world population, 150 million of whom are children. This paper uses the 2002 Uganda Census to compare disabled and non disabled children in relation to vulnerability among children. According to the 2002 Uganda Census, 2% (over 250,000) of all the children were reported to have disability. The proportion of children with disability was less than that reported in the general population as disability increases with length of exposure of an individual. The main types of disability were hearing difficulty (21%), limited use of legs (20%), sight difficulty (13%), limited use of arms (6%), deafness (5%), loss of legs (2.1%), blindness (1%) and loss of arms (1%). In general, most of the disability (85%) was physical. There was evidence that infanticide has been practiced among the nomadic ethnic groups of Uganda on disabled children. Disabled children have also benefitted less from the Universal Primary Education as discrimination still exists.

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