Disability in Ghana has a massive amount of stigma, children or people who are born disabled or deformed are assumed to be possessed by evil spirits.
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Discrimination
Adults with mental illness may be put in prayer camps, in 2013 legislation prohibited the killing of newborn babies with disabilities, so called "spirit children".
Policy and legislation
Although Ghana signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in March 2007, the government took until August 2012 to ratify it.
An estimated five million Ghanaians have disabilities, of which 2.8 million have a mental disability, however only one percent of the country's health budget is earmarked for mental health services.
Sport
Ghana has sent a team to every Summer Paralympic Games since 2004, they have not won any medals yet.