Uganda: Government Should Address Individual Needs of PWDs

12 December 2018
opinion

There is scanty data on the current number of persons with disabilities in Uganda, but according to the 2002 national census, every 4 out of 25 people or 16 per cent of the population are disabled.

The Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Act, 2006, defines a person with disability as "a person having physical, intellectual, sensory or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of that person."

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