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5. States Parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities are able to
access general tertiary education, vocational training, adult education and
lifelong learning without discrimination and on an equal basis with others. To
this end, States Parties shall ensure that reasonable accommodation is provided
to persons with disabilities.

Article 25
Health

States Parties recognize that persons with disabilities have the right to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health without
discrimination on the basis of disability. States Parties shall take all
appropriate measures to ensure access for persons with disabilities to health
services that are gender-sensitive, including health-related rehabilitation. In
particular, States Parties shall:

(a) Provide persons with disabilities with the same range, quality and
standard of free or affordable health care and programmes as provided to other
persons, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health and
population-based public health programmes;

(b) Provide those health services needed by persons with disabilities
specifically because of their disabilities, including early identification and
intervention as appropriate, and services designed to minimize and prevent
further disabilities, including among children and older persons;

(c) Provide these health services as close as possible to people’s own
communities, including in rural areas;

(d) Require health professionals to provide care of the same quality
to persons with disabilities as to others, including on the basis of free and
informed consent by, inter alia, raising awareness of the human rights, dignity,
autonomy and needs of persons with disabilities through training and the
promulgation of ethical standards for public and private health care;

(e) Prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities in the
provision of health insurance, and life insurance where such insurance is
permitted by national law, which shall be provided in a fair and reasonable
manner;

(f) Prevent discriminatory denial of health care or health services or
food and fluids on the basis of disability.

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