Purpose: Access to quality and timely healthcare is essential to the health and wellbeing of all individuals. Unfortunately, the more vulnerable populations, such as persons with disabilities, encounter a number of barriers in accessing healthcare services. This study focusses on barriers that persons with disabilities face in accessing healthcare in the Accra metropolis, and the strategies they adopt when they are ill.Method: A phenomenological approach was employed to achieve a deeper and holistic understanding of the challenges encountered when accessing healthcare. Purposive sampling technique was used to recruit 21 persons with disabilities, between 18 and 64 years of age, from the organisations of persons with disabilities in Accra.Results: The study revealed that physical, financial, communication, transportation, and attitudinal barriers, as well as healthcare professionals’ lack of knowledge about disability issues, limited access of persons with disabilities to healthcare. The majority of persons with disabilities preferred to stay at home and self-medicate or depend on herbal medicine, rather than seek help from healthcare professionals.Conclusion: Healthcare for all is a right that every human being is entitled to, irrespective of disability. The removal of barriers restricting access to healthcare for persons with disabilities is a necessity to achieve Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda 2030.

Purpose: Several researches have showed that the average academic performances of students with hearing impairment (SHIs) Method: A qualitative research design was used for data collection through in-depth interviews, analysis and the interpretation of the responses of thirty participants (12 Students with hearing impairments, 11 parents and 7 special educators). Results: Findings showed that challenges which hinder SHIs academic

Human trafficking though internationally defined (UN, 2000), needs a national definition relevant to its occurrence within the territorial jurisprudence of the nation experiencing it. In Ghana, the Human Trafficking Act broadly defines 1 2 human trafficking as:the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, trading or receipt of persons within and across national borders by a) the use of threats, force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power or exploitation of vulnerability, or b) giving or receiving payments and benefits to achieve consent. Exploitation shall include at the minimum, induced prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. Placement for sale, bonded placement, temporary placement, placement as service where exploitation by someone else is the motivating factor shall also constitute trafficking (Article1: Clause 1-3).This definition provides no distinction between the trafficking of adults and the trafficking of children. Although article 42 of the Human Trafficking Act (2005) makes reference to the possibility of children being victims of human trafficking, it falls short of an explicit definition of the concept, setting the scene for multiple definitions, with the inevitable difficulties that emerge from such legal imprecision.