With women’s rights being rolled back across the world, it is more important than ever for sexual health and family planning services to be disability inclusive, says Joy Shu’aibu
In May this year, G7 leaders made an unusually political statement denouncing the “well coordinated and funded rollback on gender and rights movements at country and multilateral levels.”1
More than ever and contrary to what we are seeing happen around the globe we need to focus on public health policy that protects women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health. This is especially important for women with disabilities who have been largely neglected in this area.
I work in Nigeria, a region with one of the lowest rates of contraception use in the world and some of the highest rates of maternal death and morbidity.23 In Nigeria, as in many countries, women with disabilities face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. This includes harmful misconceptions about disability and sex whi