Uganda has registered an
increase in the number of people who are classified as disabled, according to
Edison Ngirabakunzi, the executive director of the National Union of Disabled
People of Uganda (NUDIPU).
While speaking at the
health journalism conference recently, Ngirabakunzi noted that after reviewing
data of the 2002 national census, four percent of the population was classified
as being disabled. However, the Uganda Demographic and Household Surveys (UDHS)
of 2006 and 2011 put the numbers at seven percent and 16% respectively.
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