{"id":198456,"date":"2025-05-20T06:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-sex-and-disability-nigerian-women-share-their-stories\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:58:45","slug":"nigeria-sex-and-disability-nigerian-women-share-their-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-sex-and-disability-nigerian-women-share-their-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Sex and Disability &#8211; Nigerian Women Share Their Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Imagine feeling invisible simply because of your body. Now imagine that invisibility extends into how society treats your desires, your safety, and your rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">That is the everyday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09688080.2017.1336375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reality for many women with disabilities in developing countries<\/a>, where 80% of people with disabilities live. And it&#8217;s an issue the policymakers must address to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/desa\/leaving-no-one-behind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inclusive policies<\/a> that reach the most marginalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">We are global health researchers and authors of a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11195-024-09881-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">qualitative study<\/a> that explores the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505200028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine feeling invisible simply because of your body. Now imagine that invisibility extends into how society treats your desires, your safety, and your rights. That is the everyday reality for many women with disabilities in developing countries, where 80% of people with disabilities live. And it&#8217;s an issue the policymakers must address to promote inclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9669,257,4687,393,482,6711,7294,254,10777,6524],"class_list":["post-198456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disability","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-sex","tag-share","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stories","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}