Risky sexual behaviour and contraceptive use in contexts of displacement: insights from a cross-sectional survey of female adolescent refugees in Ghana

The project will seek to enquire into the reproductive, sexual and maternal healthcare needs and challenges of women with disabilities in Ghana; challenge assumptions about disability and asexuality; and, ask how the issue of disability in contexts such as Ghana could be better theorised and studied, said John Ganle, STIAS Iso Lomso Fellow from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, who was presenting the background to his current project to STIAS fellows.

What does it mean to have a physical disability as a woman and to want to be loved, to have sex, to be in a fulfilling sexual relationship, to be married, to reproduce and have children in a context like Ghana?