Disability in Ghana
Disability in Ghana has a massive amount of stigma, children or people who are born disabled or deformed are assumed to be possessed by evil spirits.[1][2]
Discrimination
Adults with mental illness may be put in prayer camps, in 2013 legislation prohibited the killing of newborn babies with disabilities, so called "spirit children".[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Policy and legislation
Although Ghana signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in March 2007, the government took until August 2012 to ratify it.[9]
An estimated five million Ghanaians have disabilities, of which 2.8 million have a mental disability, however only one percent of the country's health budget is earmarked for mental health services.[9]
Sport
Ghana has sent a team to every Summer Paralympic Games since 2004, they have not won any medals yet.[10]
References
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