Tag: Disability-Specific Budgeting

December 19, 2019
Retraining Healthcare Professionals: Preventing the Institutionalization of Infants with Disabilities in Armenia

Retraining Healthcare Professionals: Preventing the Institutionalization of Infants with Disabilities in Armenia

When parents have a child born with a disability, it is usually healthcare professionals who often apply social pressure on them to reject their baby. This White Paper argues in favor of targeted intervention, that is, retraining medical staff, among other things, about their responsibility to communicate with parents professionally and without bias.