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When Sarah Wang'ombe and Elizabeth Ombati wrote a tribute to "two community champions with albinism" who died in Kitui County in 2024, it hit differently. Their deaths were attributed to cancerous skin problems said to have been exacerbated by prolonged exposure to the sun.
This category of people with disabilities rarely crosses the mind when considering effects of climate change on health or basic human rights. With a lot of gaps in studies around people with disabilities (PWDs) already, narrowing down to those with albinism does not yield much either.
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