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Alexis Hanquinquant of France and Nantenin Keita of France prepare to light the cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

Closing the Paralympic-Olympic Viewership Divide

by Mariel Ferragamo

The Paris Paralympic Games had great visibility, but there's more to pulling off an equitable competition

Poverty

A man helps take a plaster cast of a young boy's limb.

U.S. Recycled Prosthetic Limbs Help Sri Lankan Amputees Walk Again

by Tristan Bove

A 200-year-old charity is tapping modern technology to help Sri Lanka weather a silent health crisis

A Syrian physical therapist with a prosthetic leg, wearing blue scrubs and gesturing compassionately talks to a patient, who also has a prosthetic leg at the Al-Bab Center for prosthetics. Both men are sitting in chairs talking eye-to-eye.

Governance

The Power of Health Information for People with Disabilities

by Joshua Korn, Becca Brunner-Caple, Cynthia Bauer, Jessica Charles

Knowledge gaps, data deficits, and stigma have stalled access to health information and care