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Beyond Legs and Arms For Afghanistan: Disability A Resource Not A Liability

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News - LSHTM Podcast by Audio Medica

Sep 25, 201200:06:03Science & Medicine

LONDON—A man with no legs and only one arm and a boy crippled by polio have been instrumental in steering a Red Cross team’s work in Afghanistan. The ICRC’s head of Orthopaedics in Kabul, Alberto Cairo, was invited by th...

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Beyond Legs and Arms For Afghanistan: Disability A Resource Not A Liability is an episode from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News - LSHTM Podcast by Audio Medica. LONDON—A man with no legs and only one arm and a boy c...

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Published Sep 25, 2012, 00:06:03 long, audio available.

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LONDON—A man with no legs and only one arm and a boy crippled by polio have been instrumental in steering a Red Cross team’s work in Afghanistan. The ICRC’s head of Orthopaedics in Kabul, Alberto Cairo, was invited by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to talk about his experience of 22 years’ work with disabled and war-wounded people. Together with Carl Blanchet of the London School’s International Centre for Evidence on Disability he explained to Peter Goodwin why we should see disabled people as a resource, not a liability.

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