Access to Reproductive Healthcare for Women with Physical Disabilities in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Access to reproductive healthcare and the realisation of reproductive rights for women with disabilities in Vietnam is impacted by multiple, intersecting factors relating to environmental, cultural, economic, and political forces. Limited research to date has examined how such factors interact to shape healthcare-seeking and access for people with disabilities in Vietnam. This PhD project employs Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s (2011) theory of ‘misfitting’ to explore how women with physical disabilities experience and access reproductive healthcare services and associated reproductive information. I seek to elucidate the contextual mechanisms that impact how Vietnamese women with physical disabilities realise their reproductive rights. To achieve this goal, I address two questions: (1) How do women with physical disabilities obtain reproductive health information? and (2) How do women with physical disabilities experience reproductive healthcare services?