Box 1.

Zimbabwe National Disability Policy 2021: Commitments to disability-inclusive health [1]

–Provision of services

∘Ensure access to health services to people with disabilities – both general health services and disability-specific

∘Comprehensive habilitation and rehabilitation services and programmes must be organized, strengthened and extended to persons with disabilities

∘Access to free health services in public health care institutions

∘Provide people with disabilities the same range, quality and standard of health care as provided to other persons.

–Rights and ethics

∘Outlaw discrimination against people with disabilities in health structures

∘Ethical standards must be upheld in treatment of people with disabilities (e.g. provision of free and informed consent to treatment)

–Healthcare workers

∘Aim for 15% of health students to be people with disabilities

∘Health professionals must be trained about disability

–Healthcare settings

∘Healthcare facilities, consultations and public health campaigns should be accessible

∘Services must be locally provided