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Dear Moussa,
Adequate healthcare is something we usually take for granted. But without healthcare services that are accessible to the poorest people living with disability, falling ill often means being at greater risk of entering into and then being trapped in a cycle of poverty.
Access to adequate healthcare is a human right and important in ending the cycle of disability and poverty. This month's End the Cycle newsletter looks at the impact of healthcare, and what can be done to make it accessible to all.
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There are many reasons that prevent people with disability in poor countries accessing healthcare, including:
- Healthcare centres can be hard to reach
- Fees and services are too expensive
- Information about healthcare can often be inaccessible to people with disabilities. This lack of access to healthcare can lead to, or even increase poverty, when a person with disability cannot receive treatment, often affecting the whole family.
Australian Paralympian Grant Patterson has joined with End the Cycle to help raise awareness about the issues of healthcare and disability in our latest video. Take a look:
By making sure people with disability provide input into the design of healthcare information and healthcare accessibility, we can make sure healthcare is affordable, accessible and available to everyone.
Spread the word! Watch theEnd the Cycle InDepth video, and share it with your family and friends.
| | treating people with disability: breaking down stereotypes | |
 In many countries, healthcare professionals aren't often prepared or equipped to provide services to people with disabilities.
World Health Organisation's Tom Shakespeare (and others) explores this issue, and he shares his insights on the importance of breaking down stereotypes in the treatment of people with disabilities.
Tom Shakespeare speaks at the
End The Cycle Event in Sydney 2011.
Here's an excerpt of the article:
"Students in health care should realise that people with disabilities have the same health-care needs as everyone else. Especially as they age, disabled people need the same screening, preventive, and wellness-oriented care as do other people. Having a disability is not incompatible with being healthy and it should not be assumed that the issue for which consultation is being sought is related to disability.
Doctors and other health professionals who encounter disabled people in their professional practice should be aware not only of the causes, consequences, and treatment of disabling health conditions, but also of the incorrect assumptions about disability that result from stigmatised views about people with disabilities that are common within society.
Disabled people have great insight into their own condition and this can ideally make their relationships with health professionals more of a partnership, where each can learn from the other and where disabled people and their health-care choices are respected." Read the full article here.
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| | GPP and Inclusive healthcare | |
 We are proud to have Global Poverty Project (GPP) as an endorsing partner of End the Cycle. GPP is a movement to end extreme poverty, through mobilizing people to take action. GPP aims to increase the number and effectiveness of people advocating to end extreme poverty and to generate systemic change. GPP recognises that poverty is a cycle, but with the right opportunities that cycle can be broken.
One of GPP's projects is the End of Polio campaign. Polio has been 99% eradicated worldwide and GPP are supporting the polio eradication efforts of Rotary International and others to wipe out the final per cent of polio worldwide. The global effort to end polio reached a major milestone when India passed a year without polio for the first time in 2012. The End of Polio campaign also raises awareness about people living with post-polio. The campaign captures stories of how a polio-affected person may live in greater poverty and experience stigma and exclusion.
Learn more from GPP's blog on the link between polio and poverty:
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| | Healthcare and rehabilitation for people with disabilities
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How CBM is making a difference
 CBM works with its partner organisations to support healthcare for people with disability, and to prevent conditions that can lead to disabilities.
Doing this, CBM seeks to end the cycle of disability and poverty by working to improve access to adequate healthcare in the poorest places.
Grace, together with her mother
and CCBRT community worker
Janeth (right).
We know this cycle of disability and poverty is hard to escape. The latest World Report on Disability highlights the links between disability and poverty, including how poverty can lead to the onset of health conditions associated with disability such as lack of clean water and unsafe work conditions. The report also reveals that almost 20 per cent of people live with a disability globally.
At CBM we're continually striving to improve the quality of life for the poorest people with disabilities, and to bring about an end the persistent cycle by working with people with disabilities to create lasting change.
Grace's story illustrates the impact of access to adequate healthcare. Ten-year-old Grace, from Tanzania, has lived with Cerebral Palsy since she was a baby, after she caught an infection and developed a high fever. Through CBM's partner hospital, Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT), Grace received the healthcare and rehabilitation she needed. Now, this little girl is learning to become independent, and is attending school for the first time! Read Grace's Story here:
You can also find out more through the World Report for Disability.
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| | stay informed and get active | |
Healthcare is a human right, so share our InDepth: Healthcare video on your Facebook page or on Twitter, and make sure your friends, family and networks all know about it!
There are other ways you can also help End the Cycle: maybe you can run an End the Cycle event, become an advocate for us, or host the photo exhibition. If you have another great idea for us, we'd love to hear about it!
You can contact us and let us know how you can share the End the Cycle message.
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Moussa Charafeddine MD
President UNAPIEI Parents & Institutional Associations National Union for Persons with Intellectual Disability
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Moussa Charafeddine MD
President, Friends of the Disabled Association
www.friendsfordisabled.org Honorary Life Member, Inclusion International
www.inclusion-international.org President, Lebanese National Union on Intellectual Disability UNAPIEI
Tel:+9613612581 Home +9615601049 Office:+9615601663
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