TY - JOUR AU - Vaughan, Cathy AU - Zayas, Jerome AU - Devine, Alexandra AU - Gill-Atkinson, Liz AU - Marella, Manjula AU - Garcia, Joy AU - Bisda, Krissy AU - Salgado, Joy AU - Sobritchea, Carolyn AU - Edmonds, Tanya AU - Baker, Sally AU - Marco, Ma. Jesusa PY - 2015 DA - 2015/09/29 TI - W-DARE: a three-year program of participatory action research to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women with disabilities in the Philippines JO - BMC Public Health SP - 984 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - In many contexts, women with disability have less access to sexual and reproductive health information, screening, prevention, and care services than women without disability. Women with disability are also known to be more likely to experience physical and sexual violence than women without disability. In the Philippines, health service providers often have little awareness of the sexual and reproductive experiences of women with disability and limited capacity to provide services in response to their needs. Very limited data are available to inform development of disability-inclusive sexual and reproductive health, and violence prevention and response, services in the country. This paper presents the protocol for W-DARE (Women with Disability taking Action on REproductive and sexual health), a three-year program of participatory action research that aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women with disability in the Philippines. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2308-y DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-2308-y ID - Vaughan2015 ER -