Inclusive health resources

Explore training products, publications and tools aimed at incorporating disability inclusion in health programmes.

Our award-winning accessibility standards and audit pack offers guidance on how to improve healthcare facilities in low and middle income settings.

Training resources and tools

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Sexual health and rights training pack

This training pack, developed through the WISH programme, equips health workers to promote equitable access to sexual and reproductive health services for people with disabilities. It is available in English and French.

Download the training pack in English (zip file: 799MB)
Download the training pack in French (zip file: 54MB)

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Disability inclusion training curriculum

This training manual was produced by Sightsavers and the Ghana Health Service to support Ghana’s Health Promotion Division’s social behaviour change programmes. The toolkit is for facilitators to run a two-day course.

Download the training curriculum (zip file: 36 KB)

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Accessibility standards and audit pack

Sightsavers’ accessibility standards and audit pack offers guidance to governments, healthcare providers and other organisations on how to improve healthcare facilities in low and middle income settings. The resource is available to download in English and French.

Download a copy of the pack

Inclusive Futures’ family planning tools

Community

Resources to support social and behaviour change activities at community level. Available in English and Hausa.

Download contraceptive methods booklet and posters (zip file: 6 MB)
Download guidance for peer facilitators (zip file: 23 MB)
Download religious leaders guide in Hausa (pdf)
Download family planning game (zip file: 20 MB) (Adapted from an original tool produced by MSI Reproductive Choices)

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Health workers

Our inclusive healthcare guide and suite of facility-based assets support health workers to provide effective healthcare assistance to people with disabilities visiting health facilities. Available in English and Hausa.

Download inclusive health assistance guide in English (pdf)
Download facility-based assets (zip file: 9MB)

Social media

Social media assets aimed at tackling disability stigma and promoting equitable access to family planning and healthcare services.

Download facts and myths assets in English (zip file: 67 MB)
Download facts and myths assets in Hausa (zip file: 95 MB)
Download family planning assets (zip file: 13 MB)

Technical and policy guidance

Policy messages

Sightsavers’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policy messages, guiding our influencing work and promoting equitable access to SRHR for people with disabilities in all their diversity.

Download SRHR policy messages (pdf)

Gender-based violence

Our gender-based violence (GBV) guidance notes for civil society organisations and state institutions in Uganda – aimed at incorporating disability inclusion in GBV prevention and response services and programmes.

Pandemic response

Our guidance on disability inclusive pandemic response, developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guidance on disability-inclusive pandemic response

Reports, studies and publications

Sightsavers research study reports

Explore study reports on our research centre website:

Sightsavers reports

Empowering change: a stakeholder analysis for inclusive gender-based violence services for women with disabilities in Uganda (pdf)

Inclusive Futures resources

Sightsavers leads the Inclusive Futures initiative.

Videos co-produced with WHO

People with disabilities share their experiences of accessing health services

People with disabilities from India, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia share their experiences of accessing healthcare services and the barriers that prevent them from accessing the health services they need. The film was produced by WHO, Sightsavers and several other organisations.

People with disabilities share their experiences of accessing health information

People with disabilities from India, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia share their experiences of accessing health information and sexual and reproductive health services. The film was produced by WHO, Sightsavers and several other organisations.

External resources: publications we’ve contributed to

World Health Organization

International Disability and Development Consortium

Inclusive Futures Helpdesk

Global Disability Summit

Global disability inclusion report (pdf)

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