The increase in the number of people with disabilities is due to a number of reasons, chief among which are civil strife and continuing wars; a high level of illiteracy; undernutrition and malnutrition; communicable diseases; poor health services; a low level of social assistance and services; accidents and domestic violence; poor economic conditions in most of the countries; and old age and natural calamities and disasters (AUC, 2005).
L &apos; augmentation du nombre de personnes handicapées tient à un certain nombre de raisons dont notamment les conflits sociaux et les guerres prolongées, l &apos; importance de l &apos; analphabétisme, la malnutrition, les maladies transmissibles, la piètre qualité des services médicaux, le faible niveau des services sociaux et d &apos; assistance sociale, les accidents et la violence au foyer, les mauvaises conditions économiques et les catastrophes naturelles (CUA, 2005).