In South Africa, a national social assistance programme provides 鈥榮ocial grants鈥to individuals on the basis of poverty, age, or disability. These grants have been extensively studied but there has been little investigation into the Care Dependency Grant, designed to support the care of children...
In South Africa, children with intellectual disability who experience socioeconomic disadvantage may be particularly vulnerable due to their cognitive impairments and inability to garner needed resources.Dana K. DonohueCentre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, ...
In addition to years of life lost (YLLs), sub-Saharan African children were estimated to have a combined nonfatal disease burden of more than 9.6 million (8.1–11.4) years lived with disability (YLDs) in 2017 from these three causes4. The total all-cause disease burden for children in ...
South Africa. Where parents and caregivers of children with disabilities are backed up by DPOs with traction in society, they are more likely to be successful in achieving their advocacy goals. Furthermore, the role of law clinics well versed in disability in representing these children, their ...
The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of Disability Facilitators of their work for the National Association of Child Care Workers in South Africa. To this end, there were two overarching themes, ‘Empowerment’ and ‘Burden of Responsibility’. Empowerment suggested that with traini...
The disability categories considered included those who were physically disabled, had a hearing impairment, were visually impaired or vocally impaired. The findings are illustrated in Table 6. Table 6. Enrollment of learners with special needs. Type of disabilitySexBanadirJubbalandSouth WestHir-Sha...
While alcohol consumption accounts for 6.4% of all deaths and 4.7% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) in the African Region [2], it is also the leading risk factor for death and disability among African male adolescents aged 15–24 years [3, 4]. Uganda has one of the ...
In 2011, around 7.62 percent of India's total population with disability was children, at approximately 2.04 million children out of 26.8 million of disabled people.
South African Medical Research Council: Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytical Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Clare L. Cutland & Shabir A. Madhi Groupe de Recherche Action en Sante (GRAS), 06 BP 10248, Ouagadougou, Burkina...
4, 5, 7 High BMI is associated with higher risk of disability and premature death in adulthood and with poor mental health and educational outcomes.6, 8 Much of global health and nutrition research and policy has focused on the period from preconception to age 5 years.9, 10 For school-...