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Multidisciplinary approach: The key to successful rehabilitation
Among successful strategies to improve the outcome of rehabilitation activities, including the provision of mobility aids, multidisciplinary approach ...
International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December 2015
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The success story: Role of prosthesis in lives of people with disabilities
The young Sâm was amputated at femoral level due to a bullet impact in a war accident in 1971. The war was raging and not much could be done ...
Case story of Dang Van Hiep, a full inclusion into social life
Dang Van Hiep, aged 9, was first referred by Terre des hommes (a non-governmental organisation) in 1974 for a bilateral trans-tibial prosthetic ...
ICRC-SFD: Announcement on name change
Dear colleagues and friends,
Since 2017, the ICRC-Special Fund for the Disabled (hereafter: ICRC-SFD) has changed its name ...
Amplifying the voices of women with disabilities
At the 10th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, taking place from 13-15 June, ...
Stop the marginalization of people with disabilities
Inclusive education, economic empowerment and technological innovation are the focus of discussions between world leaders on July 24, 1818 at the ...
Training series of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with ...
From July 28 to August 13, 1818, the ACDC co-ordinated with the Associations of People with Disabilities in Thua Thien Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Vung ...
Training on capacity and rights of people with disabilities
On August 29-30, 2018, ACDC coordinated with ChildFund Management in Na Ri district, Bac Kan province to organize a training course on capacity and ...
Good news for MDR-TB patients: increased access to safer and shorter treatment
KNCV welcomes the new guidance issued by WHO on the treatment of drug resistant TB and applauds this important step towards safer, shorter, injection ...