Uganda is internationally recognised for its extensive legal and constitutional provisions for ensuring the rights of the disabled, in addition to the presence of a number of impairment-specific disabled persons' organisations (DPOs), which provide informal advocacy and support structures. Using...

We investigate adaptation of subjective well-being using a randomised controlled trial. We find that providing medical equipment to a random sample of Ugandan adults with lower limb disabilities has a positive effect on their physical health, using both objective and self-reported measures....

This paper tracks the outcomes of a medical intervention which provided lower limb orthosis to adults with disabilities between 2012 and 2018. Six years after the intervention, over one-third of the recipients were still using their orthotic devices. Using a discrete time hazard model, the...