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Mothers urged to kill their children

Parents are under enormous pressure to kill children with disabilities, a study has shown.

According to the study conducted by Disability Rights International (DRI) and Kenyan Association for the Intellectually Handicapped (KAIH), 37 per cent of the women surveyed from Nairobi said they were pressured to kill their disabled children.

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